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posted by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the there-was-much-rejoicing dept.
As part of wanting to be part of a brighter and sunny future, we've decided to disconnect IPv4 on our backend, and go single-stack IPv6. Right now, reading to this post, you're connected to our database through shiny 128-bit IP addressing that is working hard to process your posts. For those of you still in the past, we'll continue to publish A records which will allow a fleeting glimpse of a future without NAT.Believe it or not, we're actually serious on this one.

Linode IPv6 graph

We're not publishing AAAA records on production just yet as Slash has a few minor glitches when it gets an IPv6 address (they don't turn into IPIDs correctly), though we are publishing an AAAA record on dev. With one exception, all of our services communicate with each other on IPv6.

Perhaps I will write an article about our backend and the magical things that happen there :-).
 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Tuesday April 01 2014, @12:52PM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @12:52PM (#24097)

    There are some reasonable things you can do with IPv6, world-accessible kitchen appliances.

    Imagine your fridge had a camera feed. You could see what you needed to get when picking up groceries. If it also had a vision algorithm (+/- a scale on each level), it could tell you the milk's almost done or that the fruits are going bad (based on color and type of fruit). Or, most important, it can tell you that the fridge door isn't quite closed.

    Your toaster oven (or regular oven) could tell you that it's left on for an excessive period of time.

    Your alarm system could notify you when the kids get home.

    Your thermostat and alarm system could work in conjunction to turn down the AC/Heater when it knows no one is in the house. The temperature would go back to comfortable when your car or cell phone gets within 5 miles of the house.

    Whether these things are important to you is another matter.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @01:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @01:15PM (#24119)

    Imagine your fridge had a camera feed. You could see what you needed to get when picking up groceries.

    Hmm, let's see. I'm out of milk. I am however not out of Goatse, so don't buy any more of that. I might, however, want to get a new stack of updates for my fridge.

    Oh look, the latest firmware for my fridge is two years old - same as the fridge - and rather than fix the bugs, they just want me to buy a new fridge.

  • (Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:32PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:32PM (#24195)

    I read your post and thought of this story [wikipedia.org] right away. Kind of makes your vision a little scary and prophetic.

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