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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.
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 :-).
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: 4, Funny) by Bartman12345 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @12:54PM
As a discerning netophile, I can tell you all that since SN switched to IPv6, my experience on the site has felt much crisper, with improved colour separation and much warmer text overtones.
Feels faster too.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @12:58PM
Welcome to the future. We have flying cars too.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by skullz on Tuesday April 01 2014, @03:28PM
"Unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia. Here you go."
-Some people who stole this quote and put it on the internet