Hi there,
On dt., juny 25 2019, ult...@ultimasbox.com wrote:
Hello Mel,
While it may be possible to have an IPv6 only environment, I
don't
think it is really viable. There are simply too many things that
don't run
on or have very limited support for IPv6 that it makes it very
hard
to drop IPv4 altogether and until something comes along forcing
the
move it likely won't happen for at least another decade at the
minimum.
Best regards,
Richard Gallamore
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:50 PM Mel Pilgrim
<list_free...@bluerosetech.com>
wrote:
I'm looking to set up a pure-IPv6 environment to test the
viability of
it. I tried this a few years ago and fell flat on my face due
to the
lack of NAT64 and DNS64 support.
Reading through docs now, it looks like unbound has a DNS64
module, and
NAT64 is baked into ipfw. Waving a hand at bug-hunting and
lamentations
over the inertia of embedded systems designers, has it really
become
this easy to turn up an IPv6-only site?
At risk of sounding like an advertiser, let me point to:
http://ipv6onlyhosting.com/
As an example of it really being viable nowadays.
Basically, as other have mentioned, there are a few caveats, but
most of them are easily solved.
Software with hard-coded legacy IP addresses is not that common
now, but an issue that I have seen often are fields (settings,
input, ...) that won't accept IPv6 addresses as valid, but will
accept a domain name as valid:
quite often in these cases, pointing to a domain name that echoes
back the IP over DNS (e.g. 8.8.8.8.xip.io for IPv4) is enough, in
that if needed DNS64 will add the AAAA records pointing to the
NAT64 and the piece of software that refused the IPv6 on
settings/input, just transparently uses that.
Basically, if you are unsure weather things can work out: they
can, it's not painful and more often than not, even if you forget
to do DNS64, you only notice that something is different when
using the all-time Big Offenders (Twitter, GitHub, ...).
--
Evilham
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