Re: IPv6 "out of the box" support (netbase requirement?)
Drew Scott Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA> - Wed, Jul 09, 2003:
> What is required for "out of the box" IPv6 support in Debian? When
> upgrading netbase it asked me if I wanted to include IPv6 addresses in my
> /etc/hosts. Why wouldn't I want to include IPv6? Do packages break (in an
> RC bug way) with IPv6 addresses in /etc/hosts? I'm guessing that there's
> just too many packages would break in non-RC bug ways, but I haven't tried
> any.
Some packages do break when you change your /etc/hosts, for example
host (I do not use this version myself and did not check the bug
report):
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160714>
However, my experience in activating IPv6 support on the boxes was
quite positive.
But I won't use IPv6 for production websites because I had some
complaints of users trying to access a www advertised in IPv6 and
v4. Their browser was trying to access the site in v6 and somewhere
inbetween, the packets were lost.
I would blame the bad ISP or the bad browser, but the fact is it did
not work with v6 addresses in the DNS. So I leave the site accessible
in v6 through the use of another address (ww6. or www.ipv6.), but it's
not really the 'slow switch to v6' I would like to see :(
The first step is clearly to ship all OS with IPv6 support activated
by default, but it still requires some work.
0.02 €,
--
Loïc Minier <lool@via.ecp.fr>
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