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Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
From: Graham Beneke <graham () apolix co za>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:50:27 +0200
On 26/01/2011 20:22, Charles N Wyble wrote:
For the most part, I'm a data center/application administrator/content provider kind of guy. As such, I want to provide all my web content over ipv6, and support ipv6 SMTP. What are folks doing in this regard? Do I just need to assign ip addresses to my servers, add AAAA records to my DNS server and that's it? I'm running PowerDNS for DNS, Apache for WWW. Postfix for SMTP.
I haven't worked with Postfix recently but Exim on a default config will start talking IPv6 as soon as it has connectivity. Just be careful of this since you need to make sure that all your rDNS, SPF, etc ducks are in a row before you give it IPv6 since it can start delivering mail via IPv6 with very little encouragement.
With Apache I've had some funnies with how it binds (or fails) to IPv4 and IPv6 sockets at startup. Once you're over that hurdle I've found that the majority of open source web apps either support IPv6 or are designed correctly to not be impacted by other layers in the network stack.
Its important to keep a close eye on logs and also don't roll out to all your servers in one go. The gradual migration to dual stack has been fairly painless for me.
-- Graham Beneke
Current thread:
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider, (continued)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider David Freedman (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- RE: Ipv6 for the content provider George Bonser (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Bill Stewart (Jan 28)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 28)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider George B. (Jan 29)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider LorĂ¡nd Jakab (Jan 26)
- RE: Ipv6 for the content provider George Bonser (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Multiple WAN setup for Bridge customers on Ericsson SmartEdge Platform Tony Esparza (Jan 26)
- RE: Ipv6 for the content provider George Bonser (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Antonio Querubin (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Ipv6 for the content provider Antonio Querubin (Jan 26)