For many months, HamIsland has been accessible via IPv6 using our main hostname. We will officially be staying this way as of June 6th.
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
Check out the other participants and support them while the Internet takes a major step forward.
Whoopeeee!! ;)
I have absolutely no idea what this is, but let's have a party.
A party sounds fun!
Basically, most of the Internet right now uses IPv4 addresses -- your home Internet connection, this website, everything. There is a limited # of these addresses, in fact, in most regions of the world all the IPv4 addresses available have already been assigned to providers. Soon there will be no more addresses available, though I admit that's a bit of an alarmist thing to say -- a lot of these addresses are simply inactive. IPv6 is a new addressing scheme that also comes with some new features, but most importantly the # of addresses available is virtually unlimited.
I know some HamIsland nerds might want to add their own technical details to my description, but this is a high level overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
I hope my oldish router can deal with the changeover. I'd rather not have to replace it right now.
Everything is so bright, and sparkly!
No hurry, I should have been more clear. Everything will work fine with the old IPv4.. most everyone will be running 'dual stack' (IPv4 & IPv6 at the same time) for the very foreseeable future.. forever, maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO