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Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the skipping-five dept.

netbuzz writes "Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are among the major sites on board with what the Internet Society is dubbing 'World IPv6 Day,' a collective trial scheduled for June 8. 'It's an exciting opportunity to take IPv6 for a test flight and try it on for a full 24 hours,' says Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society's Chief Internet Technology Officer. 'Hopefully, we will see positive results from this trial so we will see more IPv6 sooner rather than later.'"

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  1. A site seems to be missing from the participants by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A site seems to be missing from the participants, but I just can't put my finger on it /.

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  2. Re:Retarded by Pojut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's precisely BECAUSE something could go wrong. A full day on a site like Facebook is more than enough time to see any major issues crop up, yet isn't long enough to deeply impact their service*.

    *I know, I know..."Facebook" and "service" in the same sentence. Hurpadurp.

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  3. Only one day? by slaxative · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dont understand why they wouldnt just make this change permanent. If this is the protocol we're going to, make it stick. One day is just toying with us.

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  4. So how about it, Slashdot? by Epsillon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't it about time News for Nerds got a 128bit address? You know it makes sense!

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  5. Re:Yay by xaxa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I'll STILL NAT everything in my house. I dont need NX10^23 script kiddies attacking every one of my appliances.

    I won't, since I don't think anyone is going to port scan me.

    Here's an IPv6 address: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334, the bold bit is the local part. How much bandwidth is your script kiddie going to have to have to find 0000:8a2e:0370:7334 in the range 0-ffffffffffffffff?

    Also, a firewall is simpler than a NAT, and doesn't have the disadvantages of NAT, so you can just do that instead.

  6. Re:Yay by cduffy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's a hint: "No NAT" doesn't mean "no firewall".