[tech] IPv6 at increasing usage

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Aug 24 18:37:37 WST 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, David Adam wrote:

> Anyway, this is all a prelude to thinking about increasing our use of 
> IPv6. Why? Because we can!
> 
> 1. I was thinking about emailing Google to ask if we can get our subnet 
> placed on Google's IPv6 list, so that requests to Google go over IPv6. See 
> google.com/ipv6

We'd also want squi^Wlusca IPv6 support for proxybox.

> 2. We could put AAAA records back in for various hosts in the main 
> ucc.asn.au/ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au domains. Our connectivity is now good enough 
> that it is clients' networks who would be the problem.
> 
> 3. <your idea here>

AARNet apparently supports IPv6 multicast, which would be pretty cool to 
play around with, but presumably requires some work to be done by ITS. 

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