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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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-- Ayn Rand
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:51PM
Dammit, can we not think about those minds that were trained for years, nay decades to think in 4 octets and just numbers. The horror, the heart wrenching terror I felt when I first witnessed an IPv6 number. It struck to the core. Letters and numbers, mixed together, 6 sets, not four.
You can go IPv6 when you rip this IPv4 number, 192.168.1.78, from my cold lifeless fingers. Now I am suppose to be 1fe.67a.e45.dd1.176, NEVER! As if I can remember that mess. I'm here to tell you, once we go IPv6, it will be the day computers take over the world for only they will truly *know* each other. Now where's my damn lawn again?
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 5, Funny) by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @03:20PM
We upgraded your lawn while you were ranting. You can find it at ::1
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:19PM
That was just cruel. Delishly, baconly cruel. Well played, and now time to learn once again (reaches for TCP/IP Networking for Dummy, version 6)
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:24PM
Actually, this might be a good topic for us to go in-depth about
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:24PM
Oops, didn't mean to submit. I meant to write, go in-depth in an original post, vs. us just agitating news ...
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(Score: 1) by middlemen on Tuesday April 01 2014, @05:17PM
Ncommander, please write a blog post on how you went about implementing the IPv6 features for SN so that other folks could be inspired to implement it for their own websites/LANs.
Thanks.
(Score: 1) by jayjay.br on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:28PM
Must've been the BETA version. IPv6 goes up to 8 sets. And IPv7 should go up to eleven.