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IPv6 enabled, when?

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Thanks, but that URL doesnt appear to work, nor does there appear to be an AAAA record of it.

You could ask in the forum why it doesn't work.

The IPv6 forum appears to be for discussion about IPv6. I am asking for dslr to be available on IPv6, not just have a forum in which to discuss it...

I already know why it doesnt work, there is no AAAA record in DNS for that particular hostname (or an A record for regular IPv4, which would figure anyway).

Thanks.

Point taken. I suppose they will enable it when they feel like it is necessary.

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No need yet. You have jumped the gun just as Avira antivirus jumped the gun and caused tons of problems last year for their free version users. Eventually, after many complaints in their forum they removed the IPv6 experiments. Of course, long before they admitted their mistake most of us had reverted to Avira version 8 which is IPv6 unaware.

I have XP Pro. It is IPv6 unaware unless I download and install special software from Microsoft to force it to be IPv6 aware. I also have a Cisco router that will be 7 years old in November. It is IPv6 unaware and Cisco is not going to issue new firmware for an old router. When my ISP migrates all us Road Runner residential subscribers to IPv6, I, along with many users, will be forced to purchase a new router. My ISP is not even testing IPv6 yet and has said it will be several years before
any migration takes place and even then IPv4 will still available for those of us with older routers, etc.

IPv4 is NOT on its last legs in the USA. The situation in other parts of the world is a problem possibly in those areas but there is NO IPv4 scarcity in the US currently.
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My ISP at least has been IPv6 enabled nationally for a year or two now and is offering native connectivity for residential (ADSL) and business (whatever connectivity) customers.

They werent one of the first, but they wont be one of the last and thats the important bit.

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Who cares really the site is working fine on v4,WHY CHANGE IT AND RISK MESSING IT UP??

It is a shame. However, in the eyes of Mele20 and Dude111, older is generally better.

@Mele20: How can it not be on its last legs only in the US? You do realize the internet is a global network and current IP allocation schemes are global, do you not? XP is IPv6 aware. You just have to activate the IPv6 stack already included by MS by going to the network connection and clicking properties. On the list of protocols, choose install. IPv6 should be on the list, choose it, then reboot when the machine says. You are now IPv6 enabled In fact, you get to use MS's teredo tunnel if you left IPv4 enabled and have an IPv4 connection. It's nothing too noteworthy as it doesn't seem to have connectivity to many IPv6 sites(ipv6.google.com will work). My custom teredo install on Linux can connect to any IPv6 site I want it to. Of course XP does easily support 6-to-4 as well, if you're interested.

@Dude111: You don't have much confidence in DSLR staff, do you? Setting up an additional interface on IPv6 under Linux(what most servers run, though it's easy under almost any modern OS) is nothing on an IPv6 capable host. All of my servers run it just for the hell of it, since they are on capable hosts anyways. If DSLR has Apache(or whatever server suite they use now) bound to the interface, they will then just have to list both listen addresses or simply have the httpd listen on 0.0.0.0(all interfaces). Not much more to it than that.

@DSLR staff: I would like to see more feedback on this subject as I have asked, as well. If you guys don't know, that's ok. Given all the subjects about IPv6 lately, we'd just like to hear something official from you guys.
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I researched this subject last year when Avira jumped the gun and screwed up everyone who had the free version with their IPv6 experiment on us. The users of Avira paid versions were not experimented on so they continued to get updates with no problems but us free users had a nightmare for about 4-5 months with Avira lying about it at first, then admitting when they got cornered with clear evidence, and then finally they removed the experiment. Anyhow, I installed IPv6 on one of my XP Pro virtual machines and I tried tunneling to get the Avira updates (I was desperate like we all were here in the USA...Europe users were mostly ok because that is where IPv4 is running out of addresses and IPv6 has been more likely to be implemented by ISPs there than in the USA where the attitude is quite different).

I don't see any bookmarks about IPv6 on this Opera I am using but I may have them on a virtual machine or even another browser. I don't have time to go looking now. You can do the research yourself. My ISP has stated that there will be no move to IPv6 for residential RR users until 2011 at the earliest and most likely not until 2012 or 2013 and IPv4 will be retained for many years alongside IPv6 when the move is finally made.

I have a Cisco/Linksy BEFSR41 version 3 router. I don't want a wireless router and the last version of the BEFSR41 is version 4. It is still being sold. I use the last beta (European not USA) firmware issued by Linksy in 2005.
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The IANA made some news this week by reminding us again that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses.

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The general consensus is, sort of like the average consensus, is around this time next year, around July of 2011, we're out.

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