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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. Re:I don't think IPv6 is really the future any mor by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1, Troll

    IPv4 Exhaustion is expected approximately 734 days from today's date. That is just about 2 years.

    Remember the story about the boy who cried wolf? Yah. This is that.

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  2. Go Get Stuffed Hippy by brainchill · · Score: 0, Troll

    take your ipv6 and get stuffed hippy! .... you probably drive a prius too!!!! The widespread use of 1918 space has virtually eliminated any need for ipv6 on the public internet .... if you NEED ipv6 its either because you just got your ccna and you're trying to prove something or you just read network computing from 1900 and found out that it's the next big thing. ... it's adoption far outweighs that of elective colonoscopy but really who want's something shoved in their arse ;)

  3. Try another ISP by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can you try another ISP? If they fully support IPV6 then they should attract customers away from Verizon. The free market will solve this problem if there is real value to IPV6.

  4. Re:bullshit by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree, it should need little more than a judicial reading of the contract and an itemized list of costs. However we are talking about the US legal system which even after a decade of reading slashdot still does not cease to surprise and entertain me.

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  5. Re:I don't think IPv6 is really the future any mor by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Just like how we've been 10 years away from running out of oil for close to 40 years, and about 10 years away from commercialized fusion for about the same amount of time."

    Are you absolutely sure you have not been watching the same documentries over and over again for the last 40yrs?

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    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.