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posted by n1 on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-yet dept.

APNIC reminds us that "there are now a large number of ISPs, data centres, cloud services, and software that now support IPv6" and "enabling IPv6 can be as simple as clicking a button on your WiFi router."

I turned it on, with Comcast I received an IPv6 route but no DNS server. Fortunately, Google Public DNS has unmemorable addresses, which I was able to configure manually.

2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844

It works. "There's only one thing left for you to do: Turn it on!"

[ ed: What are the alternatives to Google's Public DNS? ]


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:52PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:52PM (#342172)

    That reminds me: for a few months I had native ISP-provided IPv6 (IPv4 only at the moment).

    It appears that the Gnome Network Manager does not support SLAC: only DHCPv6. That meant my Android and machine with no network manager just worked, while Linux Mint did not.

    Not sure if it is gnome network manager because: the about message has a non-functional network at cinnamon dot org e-mail address and the words "Network Manager Applet".

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