James Knott wrote:
On 05/25/2016 09:26 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
But unless and until all the agencies I deal with ALSO handle IPv6, the "why bother?" So long as they deal with IPv4 I end up using IPv4.
"Dual stack"? Perhaps.
No doubt this is where James comes in to tell of his experience in the area, and I rather hear about that than him telling us all that NAT is evil.
I have a browser add-on called "ShowIP", which displays the IP address of the site I'm connected to. I see IPv6 more & more often, as more sites move to it. Of course the big improvement for users is the ability to directly access a computer behind the firewall, without messing with port forwarding.
A big improvement that 99% of users won't need nor know about :-) In the last 30 days, for IPv6 sites, I see almost exclusively bigger companies with a large public audience - yahoo, google, youtube, the EU, SBB, Porsche, academic/universities, linkedin, eurovisino, facebork etcetera. For local sites, only these: adquality.ch sixy.ch (some ipv6 association) blogspot.ch www.fundmuenzen.ch (academic). www.gottardo2016.ch (national railroads) www.sbb.ch (national railroads) German sites - Heise Verlag and eBay. It's coming, but still veryyyyy slowly. Especially the smaller providers and hosters are lagging behind, but also many big companies - e.g. amazon, IBM, HP, SUSE, ABB, Credit-Suisse, UBS, FAZ. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.5°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org