[135543] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Ipv6 for the content provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Jan 26 13:41:31 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:39:46 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4D406670.8040202@knownelement.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Charles N Wyble" <charles@knownelement.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Charles N Wyble=20
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:23 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Ipv6 for the content provider
>=20
> For the most part, I'm a data center/application administrator/content
> provider kind of guy. As such, I want to provide all my web content
> over
> ipv6, and support ipv6 SMTP. What are folks doing in this regard?
>=20
> Do I just need to assign ip addresses to my servers, add AAAA records
> to
> my DNS server and that's it? I'm running PowerDNS for DNS, Apache for
> WWW. Postfix for SMTP.
>=20
> Feel free to point me at any good manuals and say RTFM :)
Most load balancers these days will allow you to provision an IPv6
virtual IP that balances to v4 servers. So you can provide services
over v6 without a lot of changes inside your network. You will need a
DNS server that hands out AAAA records though.
