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Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:41:46 -0500

Jeroen Massar wrote:
But yes, the network stack itself is a different question, then again,
you can just route a /64 into the loopback device and let your apache
listen there... (which also allows you to do easy-failover as you can
move that complete /64 to a different box ;)


You are still comparing an application level decision to a stack level decision. Thousands of addresses on a stack could definitely pose an issue depending on the OS.

Jack


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