[Leaplist] Good read. -- IPv6 has already been adopted

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 01:47 -0500, Phil Barnett wrote:
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061102_001174.html

Major corporations have already adopted much of IPv6, especially for
getting rid of 1:1 NAT between subnets (especially partner networks).
I've had to deal with it several times in the last few years, which is
why I've been advocating IPv6 fundamentals testing in the LPI exams.

It's also the main reason why I want to see a peer-replicating, unified
layer-2/layer-3 name server that replaces separate DHCP/DNS services on
corporate subnets.  IPv4/IPv6 DHCP/DNS addressing, resolution, dynamic
updates, rules and other distribution should be seemless and well
integrated, and no one offers that yet (not even Microsoft with ADS,
only IPv4, and "seemless" is not exactly true either).  Good corporate
network partitioning, naming and other practices/conventions would be
standard fall-outs of such a design.

I've been meaning to finish a whitepaper on this for years now.


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