[Cialug] Are you using IPv6?

[Nicolai]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 03:00:06PM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Are you using IPv6? If so, what challenges did you have? Any tips for
> making the jump?

Funny, I'm doing a little survey of local ISPs at the moment.  So far
only Prairie iNet has responded.

I have partial IPv6 support.  It's pretty straightforward, just some
patches here and there for certain software.  In IPv6 the biggest
hurdles are out of your hands.  First there's the question of whether
your ISP has native IPv6 connectivity.  And second, according to a
thread today on NANOG, most registrars don't support IPv6 glue records
yet.

> Any reason that you can think of not to make the switch? (BTW, I use
> Mediacom cable for my ISP)

Mail should stick to IPv4 for now; some major antispam resources are not
IPv6-ready.  There isn't even a consensus yet on how to approach
IPv6 DNSBLs for example, let alone a production-quality implementation.
Mail will probably be one of the last services to transition.

HTTP should be first IMHO.  Start there, test the waters.  Don't jump in
all at once.

 http://www.mrp.net/cgi-bin/ipv6-status.cgi

Nicolai