Last Chance Rush -- was "Five Security Flaws in IPv6"

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Mon May 14 09:04:33 CEST 2007


Hi,

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:42:25AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> Get used to NAT.  Learn to love it. If you are an IPv6-only site (the  
> likelihood of which increases significantly when the IPv4 free pool  
> runs out in 20{09,10,11,12}), you are going to need v6-to-v4 NAT to  
> connect to anything useful.

Not necessarily NAT - I see this as a good place for ISPs to step
in and provide dual-stack transition aids (web proxies, mail relays,
recursive DNS, etc., with v4 and v6 capabilities).

Interesting enough, this can be turned around - for very large networks
that are already using a proxy-only connection to "The Internet", it 
might be a workable solution to move to IPv6 internally, and use IPv4 
only on the external proxy...

Gert Doering
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