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Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the no-routing-around-it dept.

Glendale2x writes "I'm a progressive sort of guy and I want to go full dual-stack, IPv6 for the future, etc. However I recently tried to turn up a new Verizon circuit with IPv6 (after a 6-month fiber install process), and to my chagrin the order they accepted back in May they're now saying is against their policy to provide. They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it. Tell me again how we're supposed to encourage IPv6 adoption in the face of a huge black hole like this?"

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  1. Verizon are just protecting you by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the EVIL 29% of the internet.

  2. Re:Google Cache link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot is a proper American site and refuses to surrender to new-fangled hippie bullshit like Unicode and IPv6. If ASCII and IPv4 was good enough for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it is good enough for us!
    The abundant usage of Javascript and AJAX may suggest differently, but after any amount of actually using the site, you'll see it's really a undercover op to make people long for the simple functionality of the pre-Web-2.0 days.

  3. You aren't seeing the whole picture by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks to China's Carrier-grade NAT you aren't seeing levels seven through 1,345,751,000. In China OLPC means One Level of network address translation Per Citizen.

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    1. Re:You aren't seeing the whole picture by mysidia · · Score: 5, Funny

      That would be OLTPC or OLNATPC

      Actually, n/m, come to think of it.. many to one translations are commonly called PAT, NAPT, PNAT, or "Overload NAT".

      Oh, and though it may be a matter of debate, some folks swear that it's incorrect to call those NAT.

      So OLPPC (One layer of PAT per citizen) or OLNPPC (One layer of Network and Port Address translation per citizen), OLNAPTPC, or respectively OLNAPTC OLPNATPC, or OLNPC

      But not OLPC...

      Oh, what were we talking about again?

  4. Re:bullshit by ShakaUVM · · Score: 4, Funny

    >>They'd damn well better give you a full refund if that v6 was an essential part of the contract.

    From my Terms of Service with Verizon, defining a 'bit': "A unit of information that respresent a single character."

    Sigh... both a Tech and Grammar Fail.

    I wonder if I can sue them for breach of service if they can't come up with a coding scheme that can pack ASCII into a single bit.