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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On 4 Aug 2005, at 21:51, Simon Lyall wrote: > > > Creating a seperate instance or path though all that for IPv6 is > > probably > > going to be hard if it is all setup for everything to go one way. > > I know people who have set up such things using reverse proxies (listen > on v6 for query, relay request to v4 server farm via existing load > balancer). No need to touch the production v4 server infrastructure to > bring this live, although there's a need for a production AAAA record, > if you want to try it with real clients. There was a time when > www.isc.org was hosted on an OS which had no (or problematic, I forget) > v6 support, and that's how we did it. This sort of thing is what I was thinking would get things rolling for some of the content providers. Something 'short term' while you work out some of the transit issues, technical issues with apps/os/network/blah... but something toget some v6 traffic aside from ping :) > > With layer-2 load balancers and v6-capable servers, attaching the > service address to just one machine in the cluster might do the trick, > as a way of trying stuff out. > yup, another option as well, provided the LB's support v6, which is apparently problematic :( > As has been mentioned, the likely load of v6 traffic is low. However, > experience with the growth characteristics would presumably trigger > business cases and requests to vendors if/when appropriate; no > experience means less opportunity to plan and budget. How do you > (proverbial, general, plural) really know what demand there is for v6 > access to your services unless you turn it on and find out? > and how do the problems get worked out without deployment?
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