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You have IPv6. Turn it on.

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:33PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:33PM (#342200)

    IPv6 is too new for anyone to have really figured out the privacy risks.

    I was a little surprised when an IPv6 testing site told me I was using a Compaq MAC address (SLAC). That tells you something about the age of my computer (assuming I did not moved the NIC to a new machine).

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