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The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-switches dept.

IP Freely writes "At this year's Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Philadelphia, conference organizers shut off IPv4 for an hour. Surprisingly, chaos did not ensue. 'After everyone got his or her system up and running, many people started looking for IPv6-reachable web sites, reporting those over Jabber instant messaging — which posed its own challenges in the IPv6 department. I was surprised at the number of sites and wide range of content available over IPv6. Apart from — obviously — IPv6-related sites; they ranged from "the largest Gregorian music collection in Internet" to "hardcore torrents." Virtually none of the better known web destinations were reachable over IPv6. That changed when ipv6.google.com popped into existence.'"

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  1. Hardcore Torrents by rrkap · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad to know that the internet will still be able to fulfill its primary purpose as a porn distribution channel when we switch over to ipv6.

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    1. Re:Hardcore Torrents by Sique · · Score: 5, Funny

      What did you expect from IPvSex?

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    2. Re:Hardcore Torrents by Thorhs · · Score: 4, Funny

      What did you expect from IPvSex? In Icelandic, 6 is spelled sex. Being an Icelander I would expect nothing less than IPv6.
  2. Yeah, that's great but... by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 5, Funny

    More about the hardcore torrents, please.

    1. Re:Yeah, that's great but... by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

      I keep waiting for somebody to say "This thread is useless without pictures."

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    2. Re:Yeah, that's great but... by Supergibbs · · Score: 5, Funny

      This thread is useless without pictures.

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    3. Re:Yeah, that's great but... by Revotron · · Score: 5, Funny

      I only read /. for the articles... honest...

  3. Re:Okay... by webword · · Score: 4, Funny

    ** damn your eyes! **

    Yes, I tried. And yes, I just lost geek points. (-1)

    "Natalie Portman + Linux" (+1)

    We'll call it even, OK?

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  4. Re:Okay... by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Natalie Portman + Linux" (+1)
    I think you probably lose another geek point for bad syntax on that one. You likely wanted

    "Natalie Portman" + Linux

    Instead. We'll take your card at the door...
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  5. Re:Okay... by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me too, but I got redirected to a google search for ipv6.google.com.

  6. One small step... by tshetter · · Score: 2, Funny


    'Apart from -- obviously -- IPv6-related sites; they ranged from "the largest Gregorian music collection in Internet" to "hardcore torrents."'

    Once you can get porn on the medium, you know it is a winner.

  7. Finding things in IPv6 Cyberspace... by tlambert · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finding things in IPv6 Cyberspace...

    "So what's the Gregorian music website?"

    It's the little azure ball to the south of the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America.

    I highly recommend using an Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 computer deck.

    Stay away from Sense/Net if you're a n00b, or you're likely to get iced.

    -- Terry

    1. Re:Finding things in IPv6 Cyberspace... by chromatic · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's a dirty lie.

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  8. Re:Okay... by hansamurai · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not having an A record would make it quite hard to view, so I didn't even try. So instead of just pasting the site in your address bar to see what was there, you did a dig query on it?

    Sorry, I don't really mean to sound sarcastic... Friday afternoon...
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  9. Re:Okay... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Natalie Portman" + Linux
    Why operator overloading and templates are a bad idea...
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  10. Re:Okay... by AceJohnny · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could connect to ipv6.google.com, but I run IPv6 along IPv6, and I didn't bother checking whether the connection was through IPv5 or IPv6, since, as we have shown, ipv6.google.com has both an A (for IPv) and AAAA (for IPv6) records.

    Damn, I managed to mistype every "IPv4" reference. There must be a meaning for this...
    I meant "IPv4 along IP6" and "through IPv4 or IPv6" and "(for IPv4)"
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  11. Re:Okay... by bcmm · · Score: 4, Funny

    You use IPv5?

    Wow, that's obscure.

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  12. Re:Hardcore torrents? by Captain+Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    You assume wrong. It's more like a hardcore TCP/IP packet. These are, in fact, torrents which use every possible function of the torrent protocol, and uses them all to absurd extremes. One or two seeds and trackers? Please. Thousands of seeds and hundreds of redundant trackers on each torrent file. Uses every single port on the machine. Got a webserver set up on 80? Too bad, it's hardcore torrent time, and that port's being taken over.

    The content is actually just the string "HELLOWORLD" repeated one billion times, though.

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  13. I'm going to start my own internet! by MK_CSGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    With blackjack, and hookers!

  14. Re:Okay... by UncleTogie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to mention the exclusion of (+ "grits")...

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  15. Re:So,when will we have the night they shut off IP by amRadioHed · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is a theory which states that if ever anyone gets IPv6 working without any glitches, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

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  16. Re:Okay... by merreborn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did, the google logo does a little dance, other than that it just looks like google.
    The logo can also be seen with IPv4: http://www.google.com/images/ipv6_logo.gif
    Wow, is all of the IPv6 internet this much cooler than the regular old, boring IPv4 internet? No one told me IPv6 animates corporate logos! WHY HAVEN'T WE MIGRATED YET?
  17. Re:Okay... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got redirected to a Cool Web Search for ipv6.google.com. Also, the words 'redirected' and 'google' in your post are hyperlinks underlined in green that give me search results for 'redirected' and 'google' in my area. There are also many informative pop-up windows offering services ranging from pornography to tiny wireless cameras.

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  18. Careful what you ask for. by uhlume · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hardcore torrents"? Probably a pee fetish site.

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  19. Re:Okay... by More_Cowbell · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just GREAT. Now you guys have gone and broke the interwebs. This page is now the #1 hit for "Natalie Portman" + Linux

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Natalie+Portman+%2BLinux&btnG=Search

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  20. Re:Okay... by toddestan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah, well guess what page is now the top hit for "Now you guys have gone and broke the interwebs"? Yeah, what do you think of that!?!

  21. Re:Okay... by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me. Connection refused. Yeah, the Google, it does nothing !
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