[97736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sat Jun 30 09:03:59 2007
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:02:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4685E472.4050200@satchell.net>
Cc:
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <4685E472.4050200@satchell.net> you write:
>John Curran wrote:
>> Steve -
>>
>> For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6,
>> it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6
>> web/email sites already in place.
>
>As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I've not seen
>any coherent (and useful) information about how I can provide both IPv6
>addressing and IPv4 addressing for the sites I host. I'm in the process
>of doing OS upgrades, and IPv6 is included...but currently I shut off
>IPv6 because I don't have a IPv6 firewall solution yet.
Well there are lots of firewalls that support IPv6. If you can't
find one you really have not searched.
>That includes DNS, by the way. I'm deploying new DNS servers, and would
>be *very* interested in how to convince BIND 9.2.4 to answer IPv6 queries.
listen-on-v6 { any; };
If you want finer acls than that in listen-on-v6 then you want
BIND 9.3 (currently 9.3.4) or BIND 9.4 (currently 9.4.1).
>Another issue: the Plesk Web control panel software from SW-Soft
>doesn't seem to have any support for IPv6. The CPanel Web Host Manager
>at least lets me create AAAA records in zone files, so roughly 1/3 of my
>customers *could* have IPv6 capability.
>
>Lurkers: tutorials welcome.
