IPv6 Over Social Networks 102
An anonymous reader writes "A new RFC has been published this morning to significantly speed the deployment of IPv6. With IPv6 over Social Network (IPoSN), '[e]very user is a router with at least one loopback interface,' and 'Every friend or connection between users will be used as a point-to-point link.' It is noted that latency on the network can be very high, though."
so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:5, Funny)
Tracert to determine answer?
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YOU do realize that by implying that because a person uses a Microsoft product they are a complete and total idiot, YOU are causing 1000's of readers to infer that you're a giant douche?
Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:4, Funny)
No, he does mean the Windows tool. If you try to use the Linux command to see how many hops you have to Kevin Bacon, you get "No route to host - Device /dev/friends does not exist."
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clearly you don't know how to modprobe social_interaction... but then again, most Linux users just never compile that module anyway.
Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize that by saying tracert instead of traceroute you've just outed yourself as a complete and total idiot?
Since when does admitting to being a windows user amount to outing yourself as complete and total idiot? Especially as most *nix users are also windows users.
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Especially as most *nix users are also windows users.
So then it's true. Most people really are idiots ;-)
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It saves extra typing
I just use mtr in the first place.
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I just use mtr in the first place.
I just use rm -rf / , though it never seems to give the same result ;)
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Only if Kevin Bacon is a social network user...
With IPv6 over Social Network (IPoSN):
o Every user is a router with at least one loopback interface;
1. the account owner must explicitly 'run the CPU' in order to
forward or to receive IPv6 packets; this is an opportunity for
IPoSN to detail all its operation (one goal is education)
IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. (Score:5, Funny)
This protocol has been so touted, so advocated and so under adopted, that it reminds of the days of OS/2 being the next big thing.
Re:IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. (Score:5, Informative)
IPv6 is being deployed. For example, this shows the growth in the IPv6 routing table size during 2008: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-03/fig7.jpg [potaroo.net]
You can also check out http://sixy.ch/ [sixy.ch] for a list of IPv6-accessible web sites. It's growing weekly.
Google has launched their IPv6 trusted tester program, making many of their services reachable over IPv6.
Re:IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. (Score:5, Funny)
That looks suspiciously similar to the global warming graph.
Everyone run Global Warming is caused by IPv6. The science is settled no room for debate.
Why not ? (Score:1)
The real joke is (Score:3, Funny)
IPv6
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Re:The real joke is (Score:5, Insightful)
Moving from IPv4 is like moving from 32 bit to 64 (128 in this case).
You mean in that it's been around for years but most people still haven't switched and probably won't in the near future?
Yah, I guess it is like that.
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My 32-bit applications work just the same on my 64-bit operating system. If they didn't I would still be using the 32-bit operating system right now and so would just about everyone else I know.
IPv4 applications are incompatible with IPv6 without modification. To this day there continues to be plenty of new software and hardware released with IPv4 only support.
I believe that at some point in the distant future we'll switch but to compare the IPv6 transition with moving to 64-bit is fundamentally absurd.
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That's because your operating system is hiding some of the thunking that happens between 32-bit apps and the 64-bit kernel.
The IPv4->IPv6 equivalent to the 32-bit->64bit thunking are IPv4->IPv6 gateways that - surprise, surprise - are in use so that IPv6 network clients (which are mo
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[ Warning: I'm only mildly familiar with the technologies mentioned herein, and have worked with them at the technical level very little. Forgive any terminology errors, but please do correct them, as well as misconceptions and mistakes of all kinds; there's no point spreading misinformation about systems that are already very slow to be adopted. ]
That's not entirely true. You *can* use IPv4-only systems to reach IPv6-only systems in some special cases, but it is a kludge... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I [wikipedia.org]
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Where are the goddam poniez? (Score:5, Funny)
But mostly the poniez. And the flying car. That's all I want.
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Cornify [cornify.com] has all the poniez you need. Also, rainbows.
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ahhhhh, poniez.
Twenty-first century arrives after slight delay (Score:5, Funny)
After a minor shipping delay, flying cars have arrived for all [today.com]. As of today, all major cities also feature moving pavements and weather control and commuter flights to the Moon will be commencing tomorrow.
Earth President Barack Obama welcomed the representatives of the Galactic Brotherhood to Washington, assuring them that the many wars on Earth were now to be conducted entirely by robots, though the robots would be carefully monitored and pulled out of battle and granted citizenship the moment they achieved sentience. He also offered the galactics free access to Google, with only the requirement for tasteful contextually-attuned text advertising to be imprinted on their DNA.
The reactionary forces of the twentieth-century United States finally conceded defeat and shut down the Five-Year Plan Tractor Plants of Detroit, where ridiculous oversized transport was bashed together by semi-literate peasants between fifths of vodka from the nerve gas factory next door, and the Five-Year Plan Software Plants of Redmond, where ridiculous oversized operating systems were bashed together by semi-numerate fresh graduates between fifths of Red Bull. The record and movie company back catalogues have been placed into the public domain for the preservation of human culture and the comic-book capitalists of Wall Street have been sent to calming, soothing, humanistic re-education facilities. "We'll teach them to love again," said Mr Obama.
Robot housecleaners are now universally available at quite reasonable prices. The robot companion for your child, designed to say "I LOVE YOU" while the child hits it repeatedly, was an early release for Christmas 2007. The new model features the voice of Justin Fletcher from CBeebies and is designed for parents to hit repeatedly.
Future innovations for the century include the rise of the Great Old Ones from their eternal sleep to take back the Earth and consume the souls of all humanity, first driving them slowly insane. The citizenry is being prepared for this eventuality using repeated broadcasts of In The Night Garden.
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April foolz (Score:2)
grat sex text
SB
It's The Year 2000, Charlie Brown! (Score:2)
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Sienfield: "but I don't want to be a router"
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All we that can actually give you is the Whistling Yo-Yo and the Four Day Work Week with 12 hour work days.
Grapevine (Score:2)
Prisoner: There's a message through the grapevine, Johnny.
Johnny: Yeah? What is it?
Prisoner: Johnny and the Mothers are playing "Stompin' at the Savoy" in Vermont tonight.
Johnny: Vermin's going to kill my brother at the Savoy theater tonight!
Prisoner: I didn't say that.
Johnny: No, but I know this grapevine.
Improvements (Score:1, Funny)
Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:1)
I know, for my company at least, we don't want it because it not as intuitive as IPv4. AND the users already know how to use the "192.168.
Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:5, Insightful)
How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?
Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.
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My home router exists at 192.168.0.1, and that is much easier than 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 for first time setup or troubleshooting every other year.
I am not a network admin; I transfer files between computers so infrequently that it is easier to look up what has which IP address than try to remember all the stupid little tricks of samba file sharing.
Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:5, Informative)
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...but it's quicker sometimes to just use the IP.
If and only if you don't have the host registered in DNS.
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It is ALWAYS ff02::2. Period. No exceptions. If it is not, it is not IPv6.
I must not have IPV6 correctly configured at my site...
$ ssh root@ff02::2%eth0
ssh: connect to host ff02::2%eth0 port 22: Network is unreachable
$ ssh root@fe80::200:ff:fe00:0%eth0
BusyBox v1.4.2 (2007-09-29 09:01:24 CEST) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
[PRETEND THAT THE OPENWRT BANNER IS HERE.
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Well, sort of. ff02::2 is the link-local all routers muticast group. You can ping6 that address to get the link-local address of your router.
Of course, you can also you router advertisements to have your routing table automatically populated. RAs are nice for home networks.
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http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited [realmeme.com]
It makes no matter to me but it looks like IPv6 is finally taking off. I wouldn't bet against it.
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forget the admins, its the home routers. For everyone who wants to adopt IPv6, there's a shitty cheap router that simply doesn't support it. Unfortunately, the fact that the internet still works is enough to justify not buying a new one (not that there are many about).
If my router supported it easily, and I could just get myself an IPv6 address, I'd be using it. As it is, it requires some hassle, so I don't. That applies to the millions of ignorant users out there who wouldn't know how to set themselves up
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I'd like to have ipv6 but UPC (Chello in NL and some parts of Europe) has no plans to support it at this time.
They did deploy new cable modems since a year ago because they planned ahead to switch to DOCSIS 3 and in a few months they will do that. Towards the end of the year they plan to go for 50 mbps down / 10mbps up.
I don't know if these cable modems do support ipv6 but if they don't they'll probably just bring fiber to the premises (the apartment building) and pull utp cable in each apartment) so this w
/. Effect (Score:4, Funny)
This is great and all, but now we must find a way to implement the slashdot effect over IPoSN!
Less ridiculous than it sounds? (Score:1)
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my comp science teacher once said, "With IPV6, there will be enough IP addresses for every toaster on mars"
Come to think of it... There are no toasters on mars... So his comment makes no sense.
I never listened much to that guy anyway.
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my comp science teacher once said, "With IPV6, there will be enough IP addresses for every toaster on mars"
"That word is racist! I don't like it!"
Come to think of it... There are no toasters on mars... So his comment makes no sense.
"Say something, Gaius. Tell [him] you won't have racial epithets used in your presence!"
more april fools? (Score:1)
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IPv6 Meme Accelerating For Over A Year now (Score:1, Redundant)
http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited [realmeme.com]
I posted this a few months ago. IPv6 is finally broken out of its false trend lines of the past few years so it looks like it's finally moving towards a mainstream technology.
Meh. Peer to peer money (Score:2)
Solve 2 problems with one stone. Get rid of bankers, give everyone an excuse to actually implement IPv6
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/home.html [u-net.com]
You do realize that (Score:2)
Sincerely,
Buzz Killington
Dictated but not read.
This April Fool thing is starting to piss me off (Score:3, Insightful)
Serious, does every posting have to be a joke?
Re:This April Fool thing is starting to piss me of (Score:4, Insightful)
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Nope, just everything you post~
April Fools (Score:1)
April Fools but with real implementation (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=59502659200 [facebook.com]
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the IPv6 global address of the router loopback will be a /64 prefix (such as 2001:db8:face:b00c::/64) followed by the SNA identification
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Seriously? (Score:1)
Slashdot needs to quit posting these jokes and post some news about the current DNS outage...
We need it. (Score:2)
Sadly, this is what it will take to get ip6 actually used by the masses.
IPv6 interoperability failure (Score:3, Interesting)
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
What was true in 2002... (Score:1, Informative)
"You find that you can't reach the CNN servers or the Google servers or your company's web servers."
not anymore completely true. try ipv6.google.com.
"every administrator of a client on a public IPv4 address---has to go to extra effort to acquire and enable a public IPv6 address."
every IPv4 address gets a /48 6to4 IPv6 prefix. (putting the discussion of 6to4 itself aside).
This will likely get you the v6 connectivity in half a day.
Though of course it's not the way to go for a large site. But hey, the "extra e
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ipv6.google.com is one page, and since google doesn't index ipv6 it's actually pretty damn useless unless you also have ipv4 connectivity.
This can actually be quite educational. (Score:2)
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[o]h man (Score:1)
[j]ust [b]eam [u]s [u]p [s]cotty!
Not Nearly (Score:1)
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ipv4.5? (Score:4, Interesting)
Was there something wrong with coming up with an addressing scheme that DIDN'T involve hex?
For example, go 64bit and use 16bit "hextets" -- 512.512.512.512. With that scheme you would have full backwards compatibility by using good old standard CIDR. If someone owned 1.255.255.255/8 today, with the switch they would still have that allotment, but we would now have 1.511.511.511/8 available as well. Am I missing something really obvious here?
For that matter, if we REALLY needed 128bit, go with either 32bit "somethingtets" -- 1024.1024.1024.1024...
Again, I would really like a network engineer / programmer to explain why this wouldn't work.
Who had the bright idea that we had to use hex for ipv6 AND have it not be backwards compatible.
From the people I talk to, the biggest reason they haven't gone ipv6 on their home networks is "because then I have to think in hex", with the secondary reason being "there is nothing available on ipv6 that isn't on ipv4 anyway".
Thanks,
-- Brian
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Because hex is a better, EASIER representation of the binary that actually encodes the address. Ever tried to use the 192.168.0.0/8 notation? Did you notice how it's really confusing with decimal notation?
Frankly, if you can't wrap your head around hex then you shouldn't be using IP addresses. It's called DNS, learn it and love it.
Additionally, it is (sort of) backwards compatible (as much as it can be, without neutering it)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Transition_mechanisms
"As an exception to standar
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You might want to recheck your arithmetic ;) (hint: 2^16 isn't 512.)
Hex is a lot more compact, and easier to verify than decimal addresses. Ever tried to write a regex to match only valid ipv4 addresses?
And anyway, doing that doesn't give you backwards compatibility with anything - you still have to lengthen the IP header, meaning you'd have to have a transition anyway.
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Because hextets would be written as 65536.65536.65536.65536 instead of 512.512.512.512
iptables (Score:2)
actually implemented (Score:2)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this has actually been implemented as a Facebook application. When will /. support IPoSN?
Could IPv6 be a playground for virus/trojans ? (Score:1)
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Sigh, can we let the uninformed posts die please? NAT has got nothing to do with a packet filter.
You can do NAT without a packet filter, you can do filtering without NAT.
What prevents you from using a stateful packet filter with IPv6? Exactly, nothing.
IP networks over applications.. (Score:1)
Right, sure, uh huh.