On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, June 09, 2011 08:21:40 am Chris Louden wrote: > >> They should start a reward program for people to turn in organizations >> and/or people unjustly camping on class C blocks of IPs. :-P > > Like the big Universities? > > IPv6 is important for me as a consumer; I imagine at some time I'll have it. > But as a webhosting company, it's not. Here's why: > > Until the last viewer of my sites has IPv6, I'll always need to have the same > number of IPv4 addresses as IPv6. > > One for each server which hosts sites on shared IP#s, and one for each secured > site requiring it's own IP#. If I assign a new site only an IPv6 address only > people with IPv6 will be able to see it. Translators will only work one to > one on secure Certificates because they won't know which Certificate to use to > decrypt it until after it's decrypted. > > Go ahead and tell me about multi-site Certs. Yes, I suppose I could use only > one on each server, listing all the sites. But it doesn't work, because those > Certificates are very expensive and you have to get a new one to add another > domain. So instead of selling my clients one Certificate which will last them > per year, I need to buy for them a new Certificate each time I get a new > client. > > Yes, we're in a bind (no pun intended), but webhosters switching to IPv6 isn't > the answer. I wish it was; my switches and my datacenter routers and > upstreams are all IPv6 compatible. And the IPv6 allocations are virtually > free (you do have to pay an annual fee to ARIN if you get them yourself; if > you get them from your upstream, most of them are free or close to free). > > And as I finish our datacenter reorganization this summer we're getting them. > > It's just that they're not the answer yet, and may not be for years. > > Can't we just burn down the University doors and steal back those unused IP#s?
I was only kidding. Trying to rile up Sokolov as he as an entire Class C. I am aware that some universities do waste the IPs. I noted that some XP desktops at UC Irvine research labs had static public IPs. > > WWRSD? (What would Richard Stallman do?) > > <smile> > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
