[BBLISA] anybody doing IPv6 for real operations?/possible presentation topic

[Daniel Hagerty]

Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> writes:

> I confess that I haven't followed every nuance of this discussion, but
> my impression is that nobody on this list is actually using IPv6
> operationally for either internal or external networking.   If I'm
> wrong about
> that, I would love to hear specific implementation details/issues.
> Preferably as a presentation for BBLISA, but I'll take what I can get.

    I guess that depends on your definitions, mostly scale.  If home,
which is me, my wife, and a few wireless guests counts, then yes, I
am:

$ w -n
 1:54PM  up 10 days,  1:44, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.03, 0.06
USER     TTY     FROM                        LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
hag      ttyp0   2002:425c:49d9:8:216:cbff: Wed10PM 15:43 -bash 

which is an internal connection that I'm typing over right now, and
note things like:

$ host www.linnaean.org
www.linnaean.org has address 66.92.73.217
www.linnaean.org has IPv6 address 2002:425c:49d9:1::1
www.linnaean.org mail is handled by 10 mx-1.linnaean.org.

$ host mx-1.linnaean.org
mx-1.linnaean.org has address 66.92.73.217
mx-1.linnaean.org has IPv6 address 2002:425c:49d9:1::1
mx-1.linnaean.org mail is handled by 10 mx-1.linnaean.org.

for the external stuff.  I actually get a signifigant amount of mail
over IPv6, as several high volume mailing lists I read are v6
capable.  Grep says about 30% in the last week or so.