Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers

jgarzik writes "IPv6 presents a catch-22: the most popular web sites on the Internet don't have any incentive to switch to IPv6 until a large portion of their userbase is on IPv6, and their user base does not have a large incentive to switch to IPv6 until many of the popular Internet destinations support IPv6. My proposed solution is simple: Configure a proxy server that serves IPv6 requests, passing those requests through to underlying IPv4-only servers that not have yet been transitioned to IPv6. This article describes how to configure Apache's proxy server to fill this role, and suggests a few ideas for use."

Proxy server fun

[AKnightCowboy]

Make sure they're open to the public too. You don't want to be a stingy admin right? You should share your proxy server with the world.

extra hop

[pythro]

An extra hop to go through on my web surfing adventure...NOT ON MY WATCH!

The world doesn't need all that address space.

[acceleriter]

Sure, China and Korea would like billions upon billions of addresses, but that's because they've spammed their IPv4 address space into every blacklist on Earth.

Re:extra hop

[MemoryAid]

An extra hop to go through on my web surfing adventure...NOT ON MY WATCH!

I don't even have internet on my mobile phone yet, let alone my watch. I bow to your uber-geekiness.

Re:Proxy server fun

[wirefarm]

>I mean, nobody would embed ads in their IPv6 proxy if it became too popular, right?

I use mine not only to convert to IPv6, but also to convert English measurements to Metric, Relational Databases to Object Databases and any text to Esperanto.

Re:Most people don't care about IPv6

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever heard of UPnP? It allows auto-configuration of devices. Just plug in, and it works. Let's see, give me an IP address for everything in my house, so my piece of crap- windows running cable box can get a virus too. Good Idea! They have plenty of jobs open for people like you in Redmond.

Re:IPv6: Not Ready For Prime Time

[suckmysav]

"Cisco routers suck at IPv6."

Actually, you could probably just shorten this to "Cisco routers suck."

First a Rod, Then an Egg!

[chromatic]

Subject line says it most, anyway.

Re:Proxy server fun

[tolan-b]

Hey, cool! I speak Esperanto like a native!

So not at all then? :)