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Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?



On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Philipp Kern wrote:
> You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to dual stack IPv4+IPv6.  One point
> being that with a v6-only host you're totally unable to reach IPv4 sites
> without the help of application-level proxies.

That's false.  You can use protocol-level gateways, which do NAT and PT
(protocol translation).

But you are much better off with application-level proxies.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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