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| Newer page: | version 18 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:59:11 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!!340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456.
That’s more than 665,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses per surface square metre on Earth. So, if you want your toaster to have a large block of IP addresses, you can! See [IPv6Addressing] for some information.
-It also features funky new features such as different address scopes (LinkLocal, SiteLocal, GlobalScope), AnyCast, and MultiCast (and no more BroadCast). [IPSec] is native to IPv6 (it's available as an add-on to IPv4, but it's kludgy.) Read about some of the mysterious [IPv6Flags].
+It also features funky new features such as different address scopes (LinkLocal, SiteLocal, GlobalScope), AnyCast, and MultiCast (and no more BroadCast). Site local has been recently deprecated and is to be replaced by [ULA]
. [IPSec] is native to IPv6 (it's available as an add-on to IPv4, but it's kludgy.) Read about some of the mysterious [IPv6Flags].
Unfortunately no one supports it yet. One day....
!!IPv6 on WLUG
* If you use IPv6 to connect to this wiki, you will get a DancingPenguin instead of the normal [WLUG] logo in the top right corner.
+* We have a couple of aliases that are useful for testing:
+** www4.wlug.org.nz only has an IPv4 A record.
+** www6.wlug.org.nz only has an IPv6 AAAA record.
* For information about stting up IPv6 on the MetaNet, see [MetaNetIPv6].
* See our [IPv6LessonsLearnt] for some general hints about random things we've learnt while playing with IPv6.
!!Getting IPv6
There are three methods; get a native allocation of IPv6 addresses from your Internet provider (uncommon; especially in New Zealand), get a tunnel from a tunnel broker, or use IPv6's built IPv4 compatibility. See [IPv6Setup] and [6to4].
-!!
IPv6 in the DNS
+Linux Reviews on why you want
IPv6 now. Includes many tunnel sites to try it out now.
-The average IPv6 address is represented as something like "fedc
:ba98:7654:3210:fedc:ba98:7654:3210"
. If you know a couple of IPv4 addresses off the top of your head, you will really want to think about making [DNS] work for you come IPv6 deployment! Thankfully [DNS] supports IPv6 addresses; there are two types of record, [AAAA] and [A6]
. See [AAAAvsA6] for details about the differences
.
+http
://linuxreviews
.org/features/ipv6/index
.html
.en
+!! [IPv6] in the [DNS]
+
+The average IPv6 address is represented as something like "fedc:ba98:7654:3210:fedc:ba98:7654:3210". If you know a couple of IPv4 addresses off the top of your head, you will really want to think about making [DNS] work for you come IPv6 deployment! Thankfully [DNS] supports IPv6 addresses; there are two types of ResourceRecord, <tt>AAAA</tt> and <tt>A6</tt>. See [AAAAvsA6] for details about the differences.
+If you want to do reverse lookups (that is, find the name if you already have an address), make sure your '<tt>host</tt>' command supports IPv6. On Debian, install the 'bind9-host' package instead of the old 'host' package. For Gentoo, install 'bind-tools' (in the net-dns section) instead of the 'host' port (in net-misc).
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