DJB was wrong... even if he was right too. [LWN.net]

DJB was wrong... even if he was right too.

Posted Jan 28, 2011 15:09 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: DJB was wrong... even if he was right too. by bojan
Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

> Where would you get an IPv6 address from anyway?

Did you miss that every IPv4 address is automatically assigned an entire IPv6 network of its own in the 2002::0 range?

Here is mine, for example: 2002:4051:69fa::1 You should be able to get the web page at http://[2002:4051:69fa::1] or http://oberon.zlynx.org/ The DNS has both A and AAAA records.

See the 4051:69fa? That's my IPv4 address: 64.81.105.250

If home routers were preconfigured with 6to4 and radvd, every home user would already be on IPv6.

Sure, an inefficient IPv6 that is tunneled through IPv4, but it sets the stage for moving to ISP assigned addresses later on.

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