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In article <[email protected]> you write: >John Curran wrote: >> Steve - >> >> For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6, >> it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6 >> web/email sites already in place. > >As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I've not seen >any coherent (and useful) information about how I can provide both IPv6 >addressing and IPv4 addressing for the sites I host. I'm in the process >of doing OS upgrades, and IPv6 is included...but currently I shut off >IPv6 because I don't have a IPv6 firewall solution yet. Well there are lots of firewalls that support IPv6. If you can't find one you really have not searched. >That includes DNS, by the way. I'm deploying new DNS servers, and would >be *very* interested in how to convince BIND 9.2.4 to answer IPv6 queries. listen-on-v6 { any; }; If you want finer acls than that in listen-on-v6 then you want BIND 9.3 (currently 9.3.4) or BIND 9.4 (currently 9.4.1). >Another issue: the Plesk Web control panel software from SW-Soft >doesn't seem to have any support for IPv6. The CPanel Web Host Manager >at least lets me create AAAA records in zone files, so roughly 1/3 of my >customers *could* have IPv6 capability. > >Lurkers: tutorials welcome.
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