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on 2008-02-23
Someone who seems to like IPv6 lists the problems with the transition.
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Services vary in their v6 support. Bind is fantastic. Apache kind of supports it, but many modules in Apache2 choke when it's turned on. The web programming languages are all a mess in their support; perl, PHP, java, python and the rest are a complete gamble, and even when support is mostly there, bugs crop up all over the place. The databases used behind many websites, such as MySQL and Postgres have spotty support, and if you don't go back and clean up your database code, they'll return all kinds of shit if the webserver starts passing in IPv6 addresses where someone hardcoded 4 bytes.
This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 20 Apr 2009, by David Corking.
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David Corking
Someone who seems to like IPv6 lists the problems with the transition.
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Services vary in their v6 support. Bind is fantastic. Apache kind of supports it, but many modules in Apache2 choke when it's turned on. The web programming languages are all a mess in their support; perl, PHP, java, python and the rest are a complete gamble, and even when support is mostly there, bugs crop up all over the place. The databases used behind many websites, such as MySQL and Postgres have spotty support, and if you don't go back and clean up your database code, they'll return all kinds of shit if the webserver starts passing in IPv6 addresses where someone hardcoded 4 bytes.
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