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IPv6-only Hosting Won't Make Sense For Years

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-will-it dept.

rawagajah writes "World IPv6 Day this Wednesday will shake out any bugs for websites running on IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel. However, cloud server provider ElasticHosts points out that IPv6-only websites are still a long way off — they only make sense after access is overwhelmingly IPv6 capable. In the meantime, the market in IPv4 space will presumably only grow, benefiting the IPv4 hogs..."

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  1. On the other hand ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dual stack hosting does make sense right now, what is slashdot waiting for ?

  2. What is really, really sad is... by gman003 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's really sad is that I'm in networking classes right now (not in the Cisco ones yet, that's in a few semesters). And the only mention of IPv6 has been when I asked about it, or asked "how would ___ be done under IPv6?". They aren't even preparing new networking people to work with IPv6. I'm probably going to have to teach myself everything.