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How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4?
New submitter unixisc writes: Over the last 2 years, June 6th had been observed as IPv6 day. The first time, IPv6 connections were turned on by participants just for a day, and last year, it was turned on for good. A year later, how successful is the global transition to IPv6? According to Cisco 6labs, adoption rates vary from 50% in Belgium to 6% in China, with the U.S. coming somewhere in the middle at 37%. A lot of issues around IPv6, such as the absence of NAT, have apparently been resolved (NAPT is now available and recognized by the IETF). So what are the remaining issues holding people up — be it ISPs, businesses, consumers or anybody else? When could we be near a year when we could turn off all IPv4 connectivity worldwide on an IPv6 only day and nobody would notice?
Somewhere between 0 and approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551.
But, as always, the issue isn't hiding and hoping that no one finds you. The issue is how do you protect your systems and networks from people who (in the worst case scenario) already know what your IP address is?
With NAT they are attacking a single firewall.
With having all of your systems directly accessible to the Internet, the crackers can attack any and all of them.
Getting your IP address can be as simple as putting up a web server with some stupid content and having /. link to it.
I keep hearing this argument against NAT but somehow everything right now is running fine. What exactly is broken?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Honestly, the only reason I haven't switched to IPv6 on my internal network is because I cant remember the damn IPv6 addresses. O_o