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Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "On February 4th, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers. With this transition, it will finally be possible for two internet hosts to communicate without using IPv4 at all. Certain obsolete software may face compatibility problems due to the change, but those issues are addressed in an ICANN report (pdf)."
Err, I've already done that by using NAT with a 10.0.0.0/16 subnet. That gets me plenty of IPv4 for all the IP capable devices in my house.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
And why the hell would anyone want a route to his toaster? With NAT, you specify exactly what you do and do not want exposed to the outside world. You can make it completely invisible if you want, or certain ports, or fully and completely open. With v6, you've unnecessarily exposed something that you don't exactly want open, and would have to firewall every single device connected to your "wonderful" new world of everything connected to v6.
Just because it's SHINY AND NEW and allows you to give every TV, toaster, camera, and dildo in your house an IP address doesn't make it better. Intelligent use of v4 with NAT is just fine.
This is a sig. Deal with it.
That's great, and what's funny is YOU didn't even know what "beg the question" meant until you had some pompous grammar nazi explain it to you, and now all of a sudden you've taken on the cause. What's your cause again? Oh yeah how dare people misuse "begs the question", of all the causes to champion...