June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:01PM from the you-break-it-you-bought-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On 8 June 2011 many companies (big and small) enabled IPv6 to their main web sites by published AAAA records; 24 hours later, almost all of them disabled it after the test was done. This year, on June 6th, many of those same companies (Google, Bing, Facebook) will be enabling IPv6 again, but this time there won't be any going back. In addition to content providers, several ISPs are also participating: Comcast, AT&T, XS4ALL, KDDI, and others. CDNs Akamai and Limelight are on board, as well as network equipment manufacturers Cisco and D-Link. Is the chicken-and-egg problem of IPv6 finally, slowly coming to an end?"

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More shit for the tip (dump). by Jimbookis · 2012-01-17 17:50 · Score: 1, Troll

Righty ho. So my 5 year old Billion 7401-VGPM modem which is chugging along just fine but doesn't do IPv6 needs to die first before I get an IPv6 modem in spite of my ISP (Internode) supporting IPv6 be default. Really, *really* what's IPv6 going to do for me now or even in the next 4 years that my IPv4 and 192.168.x.x home network don't do for me?