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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:30PM (#342227)

    its nice that g. provides free and fast dns servers.
    however lets not forget thar requesting the machine usable number of a human used name reveals alot.

    also it is probably the easiest way to start a new search engine or keep one going: by providing domain resolution you get to know what websites are being sought and you can then instruct your web spider to crawl them and send data to your search database.

    it is like having a ghost person follow you into some store and watching you taking out products from the ailes and taking note of it.

    so if you want to help google search get even better, use their dns servers -or- start an alternative free dns server (cluster, p2p?) that feeds a search engine.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by inertnet on Thursday May 05 2016, @10:23PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Thursday May 05 2016, @10:23PM (#342276) Journal

    Be aware that by using Google DNS you're giving them an opportunity to build a database of every site you visit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:47AM (#342423)

      How is that different than any other DNS provider?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:22PM (#342602)

        Not all DNS providers keep that information around. And not all those that do keep that information use it to sell you out. There are still *some* honest people alive.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @10:44PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @10:44PM (#342732)

          But you don't know that. They tell you that and you believe them because they are not Google et al.