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

Wed Dec 8 02:21:44 UTC 2010
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:44 -0500, Tony Schreiner 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.
> 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?

The URL is incorrectly formatted; enter it as

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