[PLUG] IPv4 address exhaustion - beginning of the end in 8 days

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

Russell> I thought everyone did!

indeed.

Russell> Who has an ipv6 allocation, raise your hands?  I got mine from from
Russell> Hurricane Electric.  Easy.  Free.  Cool.

I have 5 or 6 /48's already.  Many of them through tunnelbroker.net.

GO GET YOUR FREE FAST IPV6 TUNNEL FROM tunnelbroker.net.

As long as you have ipv4 connectivity outward (even through NAT!), you
can get a fully routeable *static* ipv6 /48 for your very own.  For
free.  Five of them, if you want.  They'll even provide forward and
reverse DNS for free in a few more mouse clicks.

Heck, I have one tunnel that terminates in LA, and another that
terminates in the UK.  Makes watching BBC iPlay a lot easier. :)

Also, if you're on Comcast, and have a proper border router, you can get
ipv6 anywhere in Portland as well, using 6to4 or their other weird
protocol.

Or, most modern machines can run "miredo", which sets up an outbound
ipv6 tunnel on the fly, using the teredo protocol.  I've had mixed
results with that, but my laptop gives me v6 every time I open the
clamshell, regardless of what wifi I'm hooked up to (ipv4 only,
typically).

No excuse not to be on v6.  None.

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