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World IPv6 Launch Day Underway

Posted by Unknown on from the it's-finally-1999 dept.

A number of readers have written in with stories related to today's permanent rollout of IPv6 by several major organizations. From the looks of it, for the 1% or so of end users with IPv6 support, everything is going smoothly. For those not so lucky to have IPv6 already, an anonymous reader writes with (mostly) good news: 60% of ISPs intend to enable IPv6 by the end of 2012. For business users, darthcamaro provides some words of caution: "...the Chief Security Officer of VeriSign doesn't think IPv6 should be turned on by a whole lot of people. The problem is network security devices in many cases don't scan IPv6. So if you turn IPv6 on, you're screwed. 'If you don't have that visibility into IPv6, you should probably consider explicitly disabling IPv6 on your systems until you can take a very concerted approach to enabling IPv6 in a secure manner,' McPherson said."

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  1. I am the 1% by Galestar · · Score: 4, Funny

    With IPv6 support

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  2. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Humans have different needs than computers. It's almost like we need a table of easy to remember names that can be used to look up IP addresses automatically by a computer. Then that table needs to be distributed automatically to all the ISPs in the world. That'll never happen. Sounds impossible.

  3. Re:slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pff, first you want unicode support and now this.

  4. Re:slashdot? by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read that as unicorns at first, and I thought, "No, I just want ponies!"

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  5. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... by zill · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Google" won't help him. He needs to go to 74.125.226.64.