IPv6 Root Servers Activated


	IPv6 Root Servers Activated

BartendingBear

2-6-2008 9:24 AM

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It's a geek thing. If you have to ask, don't bother.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/09169481-a27f-4e75-8c66-e424e1099775/7AB4360F-93D3-4E6F-849A-77E186976EC4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">arstechnica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html">IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6
addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are
"anycasted:" physical machines are placed in different locations, but
share an address. Requests are automatically routed to the closest
server. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/E82B0493-3BA2-4BEC-A42B-91AB86D4FEF1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html">
As we <A href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-icann-to-add-ipv6-addresses-for-root-dns-servers.html" linkindex="26" set="yes">noted a month ago</A>,
this change means that it's now possible for an IPv6-only system to
connect to another IPv6-only system without the need to do DNS lookups
over IPv4. In order to see how well that works, I turned off IPv4 on my
Mac, started up a local nameserver, and started typing URLs. Of the 16
web sites that I tried, nine were reachable, seven were not.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html">
What does this step mean in the grand scheme of things? In
practical terms, nothing, really: you pretty much have to go out of
your way to run an IPv6-only nameserver, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-icann-flips-switch-on-ipv6-dns-root-servers.html">in a
few years we'll have a situation where most of the Internet is still
IPv4-only, but newcomers won't be able to get IPv4 addresses to join
the party.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7AB4360F-93D3-4E6F-849A-77E186976EC4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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