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]/