Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’ 247
netbuzz writes "Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are among the major sites on board with what the Internet Society is dubbing 'World IPv6 Day,' a collective trial scheduled for June 8. 'It's an exciting opportunity to take IPv6 for a test flight and try it on for a full 24 hours,' says Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society's Chief Internet Technology Officer. 'Hopefully, we will see positive results from this trial so we will see more IPv6 sooner rather than later.'"
Better Day (Score:5, Interesting)
Two days earlier and it would have been June 6, or 6/6. Rolling out IPv6 on 6/6 would have been biblically ordained to take over the heavens and the earth. Now it's just... another day, another test.
Re:Yay (Score:5, Interesting)
Why not?? In the *real world* everything has a public address. I know people don't "get it" when it comes to networking, but this is just FUD and is getting ridiculous.
NAT is like having a chaperone, where all communication happens through a 3rd party. It increases network traffic, it makes peer-to-peer internet impossible. And it is not security. You only need to trick inside device to connect to outside device, and there goes NAT as security! And that is quite easy.
Firewall is like having a security guard monitoring traffic. A firewall is actually designed to handle security, not illusion of security. This can actually catch and prevent unsanctioned communication. And if you want to use Skype, you can actually allow inbound connections.
Skype went down because of NAT. If the internet was IPv6, there would be no need for "supernodes". People could actually communicate, peer-to-peer instead of through their chaperones.
Finally, when I was young and stupid, I believed that NAT was a cool thing. When I asked a network admin at local university why they don't do more NAT and all departments gets /24 or larger, the answer was quite simple. Security. I didn't understand that answer for a few years, but now years later, it is as plain as night and day. NAT creates more problems than it's worth. And if someone brought some shitty SPAM relay (virus), it becomes a challenge just trying to identify where the rogue program is communication from.
Traceability and accountability and transparency and security is what public internet brings. NAT gives you an illusion of anonymity and security.