Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

[Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org>]

In article <4685E472.4050200 () satchell net> you write:
> John Curran wrote:
> > Steve -
> >  
> >     For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6,
> >     it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6
> >     web/email sites already in place.
>
> As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I've not seen 
> any coherent (and useful) information about how I can provide both IPv6 
> addressing and IPv4 addressing for the sites I host.  I'm in the process 
> of doing OS upgrades, and IPv6 is included...but currently I shut off 
> IPv6 because I don't have a IPv6 firewall solution yet.

        Well there are lots of firewalls that support IPv6.  If you can't
        find one you really have not searched.

> That includes DNS, by the way.  I'm deploying new DNS servers, and would 
> be *very* interested in how to convince BIND 9.2.4 to answer IPv6 queries.

        listen-on-v6 { any; };

        If you want finer acls than that in listen-on-v6 then you want
        BIND 9.3 (currently 9.3.4) or BIND 9.4 (currently 9.4.1).

> Another issue:  the Plesk Web control panel software from SW-Soft 
> doesn't seem to have any support for IPv6.  The CPanel Web Host Manager 
> at least lets me create AAAA records in zone files, so roughly 1/3 of my 
> customers *could* have IPv6 capability.
>
> Lurkers:  tutorials welcome.