North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter (Was: Awful quiet?)
> 8) Once we got everything on the network and server side ready for > and usable on IPv6 we discovered that a lot of our client's > applications just had no idea what to do with IPv6 connections. Many > PHP applications broke because they expected $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] > to fit within 15 characters at most. Databases had to have their > columns widened (if they were storing the address as text), or > functionality had to be rewritten if they were storing IPs as 32 bit > integers. Web server log analyzers claimed that the log was > "corrupted" if it had an IPv6 address in it. Lots and lots of > application logic just wasn't IPv6 aware at all, and either had > serious cosmetic problems with displaying IPv6 addresses, or simply > didn't work when an IPv6 address was encountered. Just imagine what it will be like if the idea of sticking a decimal point into 32 bit AS numbers ends up getting deployed. --Michael Dillon
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