[CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

Ryan Wagoner rswagoner at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 03:02:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Does this mean I have to type in URLs like:
>>
>> http://3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf/
>>
>> I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to "forget it I'll wait until DNS is working again".
>>
>> In fact with DNS problems we'd be pretty much crippled.
>>
>> I'd use IPv6 if the addresses weren't so hard to remember.
>>
>> -Ross
>>
>
> Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL
> rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox
> interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless there's a special http
> protocol string for ipv6?
>
> Tony

Since : is used to denote the port you must put the IPv6 address in brackets.

http://[3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf]/

Ryan



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