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We've Killed IPv4!

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: 1) by darkfeline on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:08PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:08PM (#24374) Homepage

    I have a hard time deciding whether or not this is an April Fools joke or not. Considering the fact that most people still do not have IPv6 because of US ISPs' rapid innovation, it's probably a joke, but I would actually appreciate if it wasn't. We really need a push to cut off IPv4 so people start forcing their ISP to actually do shit. I understand IPv4 works fine with NAT finagling, but the expanded address space is just icing on the fact that ISPs' will be forced to do some much needed upgrading.

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  • (Score: 1) by urza9814 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @07:09PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @07:09PM (#24415) Journal
    It's not a joke, but I don't think it's what you're thinking. They're using IPv6 *internally*. Between their own servers in their datacenter. The outside world can still access via IPv4.