Re: Ipv6 for the content provider

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:39 AM, George Bonser wrote:

> > From: Charles N Wyble 
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:23 AM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Ipv6 for the content provider
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Feel free to point me at any good manuals and say RTFM :)
>
>
> Most load balancers these days will allow you to provision an IPv6
> virtual IP that balances to v4 servers.  So you can provide services
> over v6 without a lot of changes inside your network.  You will need a
> DNS server that hands out AAAA records though.
And if your servers behind the LB aren't prepared for it, you lose a LOT
of logging data, geolocation capabilities, and some other things if you
go that route.

Owen