On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:08 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Surely, if your ISP goes broke then you will still have to change your mail, DNS, ADSL login etc credentials anyway (or else the ISP must have been taken over seamlessly) so I'm not clear how already having an IPV6 connection saves much work.
If you're running services (mail, web, whathaveyou) on your IPv6 range, a change of provider will mean changing IP-addresses, just like today. If you're not running services, it doesn't matter much - just like today.
Right, but using a tunneled IPv6 now doesn't seem to change the overall amount of work. Roughly speaking, either:
(a) my ISP is stupid and goes broke or is so badly organized that I have to change to and set up another, or (b) my ISP is wise and I'm automatically migrated to IPv6 (or he sends me clear instructions on what I need to do)
But I don't see how me doing anything now separately from my ISP reduces my overall workload. It feels likely that it will actually increase the work.
( Not trying to start a fight, just to understand if Hans' suggestion has legs. :)
Cheers, Dave
Just as Per wrote, I assume you have you mail and other services on you own domain-name, and not on a sub-domain of your provider. So mail/web/other-traffic goes to yourdomain.org
From your current-isp you get an ip-address and on that adres you terminate your IPv6-tunnel. Along with your tunnel you get an /64 network (ad if you want an extra /48 network) Define all of your services of the addresses of that /48 network.
In case you switch to another provider, only the ipv4-address of your tunnel changes, nothing else. ## Actually, this is more related to managing your own domainname, but since i started to use v6, i rather use names instead of addresses.. But even when you just use plain numbers, it is just adjusting your tun-setup script with the ip-adres of your new provider, as the addresses of your /48 remains the same. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org