Re: Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 22, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: Give it 3 or 4 years and it will be having a definite impact, 10 years or less it will be common, or even ubiquitous. It may be sooner than that. The IPv4 address space is expected to run out in 2011 at current rates of allocation. After t

Re: Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:35, Paul E Condon wrote: > There was a time, in the distant past, but within the time since > I started using Debian, that the default /etc/hosts file did not > contain the collection of lines beginning with the comment: > > "# The following lines are desirable for IPv6

Re: Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-22 Thread Justin The Cynical
Paul E Condon wrote: *snip* Lenny, and Debian stock linux kernel, 2.6.26-1-686. Is this host capable? If not, what is the current thinking about when IPv6 might actually arrive? Or is it likely to be one of those things, like World Peace, that has been in future and likely always will be --- in

Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-22 Thread Paul E Condon
There was a time, in the distant past, but within the time since I started using Debian, that the default /etc/hosts file did not contain the collection of lines beginning with the comment: "# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts" When I first saw these lines, I knew very well