Iljitsch raises an interesting point that I'll generalize: can we maximize the learning by identifying specific applications to target for IPv6 compatibility during the IPv4 eclipse?
- Ralph On Feb 29, 2008, at Feb 29, 2008,9:34 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > What's going on with the preparations to turn off IPv4 at IETF-71? > It's been really quiet surrounding that topic since the initial > discussion. > > Because I've had an IPv6 mail server for years and a WWW proxy that > allows IPv6-only hosts to get access to the IPv4 web is fairly trivial > to set up (tip for XP users: XP can't do DNS lookups over IPv6, use > Firefox and configure it with the IPv6 address of the proxy), my > preperation for this has been mostly getting Jabber to work over IPv6. > > A while ago I managed to find a public Jabber server that is reachable > over IPv6 (amessage.de with some other domains pointing to the same > server). Unfortunately, the client I generally use, Apple's iChat, > does support Jabber over IPv6 when there is IPv4 connectivity, but > when the system has no IPv4 address it says that "you're not connected > to the internet" and doesn't try to connect over IPv6. Recently I > thought this was fixed but it turned out that the Parallels Desktop > virtualization enviroment sets up a bunch of virtual interfaces with > private addresses, which is enough for iChat to work over IPv6. > > Anyway, I started looking for Jabber clients that support IPv6. Most > don't, but there are so many Jabber clients that there is actually a > choice of ones that do. Unfortunately, none of them could connect to > the jabber.ietf.org rooms. I first thought this was because of the > clients, so I didn't keep a list of clients that support IPv6. But it > turned out that this is a problem with my iljitsch at amessage.nl > account on the amessage.de server, which doesn't seem IPv6-related. > > So... does anyone know a place to obtain a Jabber account that's > usable over IPv6? I assumed psg.com would be a good candidate, but > even though psg.com has a AAAA record, jabber.psg.com doesn't. > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
