Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 18 submissions in the queue.

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? ]

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
You have IPv6. Turn it on. | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 78 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @04:00PM (#342584)

    I believe the parent meant that you're router could use DHCPv6 to get your LAN prefix from your ISP. Your local machines would use SLAAC to get their info from the router. That is, if the router uses SLAAC, it just gets an IP address and not the prefix it needs to broadcast to the LAN. It could then NAT the LAN through its IP, but the local LAN wouldn't have public addresses.