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

Mihai T. Lazarescu mtlagm at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 10:47:20 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:15:50PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote:
> >
> >> 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]/
> 
> Thunderbird doesn't make that a clickable link.  Since the change to ipv6 is 
> pretty much inevitable and probably most things will eventually work out, maybe 
> we should focus on the little things (like programs not recognizing the 
> addresses in various contexts) that are going to cause pain during the transition.

I see that UrlView in mutt gets it just fine. :-)

Mihai



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