On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 15:13, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > >> Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand >> that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main >> websites. > > This appears to be the case. > >> http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me. > > Well it only has an IPv6 address, so it won't if you don't have IPv6 > capability. > > $ host ipv6.google.com > ipv6.google.com is an alias for ipv6.l.google.com. > ipv6.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:8006::63 > > >> So I guess it's too early to enable my websites with IPv6. > > It's not an either/or thing. You can have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses on > the same host. > > $ host ipv6.he.net > ipv6.he.net has address 66.220.2.75 > ipv6.he.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:0:64::2 > > Anyway, your hosting provider would need to support IPv6 to some extent > before you could do this.
I will wait until Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia will do it, and then I will start worrying about it. Or when my web hosting providers and ISPs will do it for me (I have more than one hosting provider and ISP - for more than one website; connecting at home, work etc.) > >> By the way, I wonder what Wikipedia will do with IPv6 addresses? Will >> they do the same they are doing with IPv4 (save the IP of the user who >> edited pages)? > > I don't see why this would change. > >> Will an IPv6 address be permanent for end users, or will it change >> every day? (I think my IP address at home is not permanent). > > This would be up to yoru ISP, though it would be easier for them to allocate > static addresses and even blocks of addresses so that internal hosts can > have their own address. > > But relying on a dynamic IP address for anonymity is not the best strategy. > ISPs can be forced to reveal the identity of a person using a particular IP > address at a given time. There are other methods like anonymous proxies etc > which can more effectively help you hide your identity, though if you've got > nothing to hide then I wouldn't bother. > > Geoff. > > Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedy.net/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
