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IPv6 Over Social Networks
An anonymous reader writes "A new RFC has been published this morning to significantly speed the deployment of IPv6. With IPv6 over Social Network (IPoSN), '[e]very user is a router with at least one loopback interface,' and 'Every friend or connection between users will be used as a point-to-point link.' It is noted that latency on the network can be very high, though."
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This protocol has been so touted, so advocated and so under adopted, that it reminds of the days of OS/2 being the next big thing.
This is my sig.
Maybe, in the far future, we can have ipv12 where all trees will be interconnected to combat infestations and maybe even our own imune system hooked to ipv2^n so we can finally deal with food poisoning.
IPv6
So how do you get the 'Fool' achievement? Do you just have to post in original Achievement article, or any April Fools article? Please help, the Slashdot achievements are all I have going for me right now.
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But mostly the poniez. And the flying car. That's all I want.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
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Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
In addition to the expected high latency, this RFC also depends on a notoriously insecure transport medium. Suggest implementing security measures such as taping over mouth and covering your eyes and ears with your hands. This will have the added benefit of being unable to speak, see, or hear evil.
I don't care how much "publicity" they throw at IPv6, if the actual network admins don't adopt it, it will not go anywhere fast.
... " terminology. To try to teach a user IPv6 is the same as trying to get them to take their heads out of their arses !!!
I know, for my company at least, we don't want it because it not as intuitive as IPv4. AND the users already know how to use the "192.168.
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SNA is a proprietary network architecture. You'd think someone from Cisco would know that.
Nothing comes close to pigeons, though....those were the days.
This is great and all, but now we must find a way to implement the slashdot effect over IPoSN!
Even though this seems like another April fools joke, isn't one of the purposes of making IPv6 have *so many* possible address to make things like this possible?
just what we needed :/
http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited
I posted this a few months ago. IPv6 is finally broken out of its false trend lines of the past few years so it looks like it's finally moving towards a mainstream technology.
Solve 2 problems with one stone. Get rid of bankers, give everyone an excuse to actually implement IPv6
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/home.html
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You do realize that by dedicating a full day of /. to posting April Fool's Day jokes that any arguments, however superficial, that /. aggregates business-relevant content that must be monitored a certain percentage of the workday are completely defenestrated, correct?
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Dictated but not read.
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Serious, does every posting have to be a joke?
This is an April Fools, right guys? Right?
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Slashdot needs to quit posting these jokes and post some news about the current DNS outage...
For years it has been like this. Then suddenly one year there were no April fools stories on 1 apr that year. This 1 apr, all stories are Aprils fools... Some moderation would be nice. But hey, it's only one day...
Sadly, this is what it will take to get ip6 actually used by the masses.
1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=59502659200
I am still puzzled about this one. Particularly since we finished with April 1 eleven hours ahead of UTC.
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http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
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I can imagine an introductory computer networking class being taught with this, with the students passing IPv6 messages over Facebook. Of course, some mechanism is needed to check for their correctness.
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I say don't drink and drive, you might spill your drink. Before you get behind the wheel just stop and think.
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IP6 over Tweets for twits.
The announcement is made on 1 April, and it's a funny idea, but it's a real facebook implementation, and I can IPv6 ping real internet IPv6 addresses (slowly)!
Not nearly as good as the old TCP over carrier pigeon. With the birds there was much higher latency (measured in days or weeks sometimes) and the packet loss could be attributed to other wildlife, or poor training of the carrier. But OK I see it, this one could work.
Why bother
Was there something wrong with coming up with an addressing scheme that DIDN'T involve hex?
For example, go 64bit and use 16bit "hextets" -- 512.512.512.512. With that scheme you would have full backwards compatibility by using good old standard CIDR. If someone owned 1.255.255.255/8 today, with the switch they would still have that allotment, but we would now have 1.511.511.511/8 available as well. Am I missing something really obvious here?
For that matter, if we REALLY needed 128bit, go with either 32bit "somethingtets" -- 1024.1024.1024.1024...
Again, I would really like a network engineer / programmer to explain why this wouldn't work.
Who had the bright idea that we had to use hex for ipv6 AND have it not be backwards compatible.
From the people I talk to, the biggest reason they haven't gone ipv6 on their home networks is "because then I have to think in hex", with the secondary reason being "there is nothing available on ipv6 that isn't on ipv4 anyway".
Thanks,
-- Brian
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Oh great, now I won't only have to ignore those idiots but also go the extra mile and add a DROP rule in ip6tables.
:/- spoon(_).
Dammit, Jim! Unless it IPv6-over-social-nets-over-homing pidgeons it's not worthy of an April Fool's Slashdot.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this has actually been implemented as a Facebook application. When will /. support IPoSN?
Nope, just everything you post~
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"You find that you can't reach the CNN servers or the Google servers or your company's web servers."
not anymore completely true. try ipv6.google.com.
"every administrator of a client on a public IPv4 address---has to go to extra effort to acquire and enable a public IPv6 address."
every IPv4 address gets a /48 6to4 IPv6 prefix. (putting the discussion of 6to4 itself aside).
This will likely get you the v6 connectivity in half a day.
Though of course it's not the way to go for a large site. But hey, the "extra effort" does not involve the rocket science. Talk to your ISP.
"Wake up, folks: The ``combined v4/v6 network'' is a bad joke."
fire up the wireshark on your network which has hosts running Vista (Or try Win7 beta which there are some positive comments about ?) or a reasonably recent Linux distro (couple years?) or if you want to do it with style, a Mac. :)
"ping6 -I FF02::1".
Once I configured the router - Vista, Ubuntu, and the wife's Mac I did not need to touch at all to get the IPv6 connectivity. Can't say about Win7, I have a luxury of using *nix exclusively @work and @home for the past 5+ years - Vista was just an entertainment experiment as it came preinstalled with a new laptop I am using now under Linux.
"If you want IPv6 to succeed as a global network, you have to figure out how to make an IPv6 address just as useful as an IPv4 address."
There are already applications that are IPv6-only by nature. 6lowpan, for example. There's no "4lowpan", it's IPv6-only. There are others.
Though I respect djb for his skills, I think there are some updates that need to be done to the text.
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I love the idea of having more IP addresses but I fear the dangers of exposing our systems to the public net. NAT provides, at least, some sort of firewall for me. Sure, IPv6 can do NAT too but if I don't need it, why configure it? Just plug my PC into the public network and you're online with a public IPv6. Yeah, and that's what I think can be scary.
Also don't forget to check out RFC 5513 - IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
Right, sure, uh huh.
Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
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