Re: ipv6

On 3/1/14, Noel Butler <[email protected]> wrote:
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> That might be fine for home uses... But try that approach if you run
> public facing servers, that all load up well before rc.local, if the
> daemons start at all, they will end up not listening on ipv6, I think
> Nick has a valid point (I gave him a quick reference on another mailing
> list last year on how I do it, as below, no idea if he still uses this
> way or has made it more efficient, Nick ??).
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No, it is just as you sent it last year.

> if this was 2004 I'd say "pffft" but like he says, it aint, its 2014,
> dunno bout you guys but in Australia you can not get any more ipv4
> addresses from APNIC, and if you cant barter with those wasting them to
> buy a few ranges off them, you are left with only ipv6, whats the point
> of a hosting company for example, having a /32, if none of their
> slackware boxes bring up ipv6 accepting web mail and dns services?
> jesus, even RedHat has been doing this for *years*
>

and ubuntu, everybodies favorite distro to hate