[dholowiski]

While the geek in me thinks this is really super cool, the realist in me wonders why on earth I would need an IPV6 address _now_. All though we're "out" of IPV4 addresses, no hosting company has run out (I can still get all the IPV4 based VPS's & dedicated servers I want). Maybe I care 4 years from now, but I'm not sure I really care now... except it is really cool.

[wmf]

The point of dual-stack servers is to more efficiently serve the imminent DS-Lite clients where IPv6 is more efficient than IPv4.

[hartror]

"DS-Lite"?

[wmf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms#Dual...

(What a shame; they gave this protocol an un-Googleable name.)

[hartror]

Phew! I was hoping it wasn't something to do with Nintendo! Thanks!

[bdonlan]

This is the perfect time to get practice using IPv6, so you're not scrambling when it _does_ get scarce :)

[dholowiski]

That's a really good point. Although if it's just for practice I's rather wait for it to come to EC2 and just pay by the hour to practice.