Comment Re:Severe weather in Virginia likely the culprit (Score 1) 247
I'd agree, except a) it's called "Surry Power Station," and b) a quick Google on that name gives you all the gory details.
Comment Re:Severe weather in Virginia likely the culprit (Score 1) 247
Comment Re:Severe weather in Virginia likely the culprit (Score 1) 247
I think you're ignoring the fact in the case of Fukashima, they were set up to be self-sufficient -- it's just that the tsunami knocked out their backup generators.
Comment Re:Severe weather in Virginia likely the culprit (Score 1) 247
I find it slightly more concerning that the power plant didn't. They're not designed to be self-sufficient?
Comment Oh boy (Score 1) 247
I'm glad everyone's moving to the cloud for reliability and scalability purposes!
Comment Re:Opposite Experience with Adobe Download (Score 2) 348
Akamai has been in this business for a very long time and has their infrastructure on datacenters all over the planet. They know what they're doing.
Based on the "IPv6 is hard!" whining I've heard from their camp, I'm not so convinced they still know what they're doing.
Comment Re:Dual stack failed? (Score 1) 320
Even a tunnel holding 2 devices is usually issued a
I take it you're assuming that each tunnel subnet requires a network and broadcast address? Nope. All you need for a point-to-point link is two IPs, so using a
Granted, as many other IPv6 proponents are quick to point out, it's not like we need to worry that much about depleting the IP space, but damned if that kind of wasteful thinking doesn't remind me of how we got into such a mess with IPv4.
Comment Re:Dual stack failed? (Score 1) 320
If all the devices in your network only speak IPv6, then the missing you would just need a router that translates IPv6 to IPv4
AKA "NAT64"
(of course it will may also need to convert any DNS A record to a DNS AAAA record).
AKA "DNS64"
A subset of the IPv6 range is actually allocated to cover the IPv4 address range - basically any address with a maximum value of 2^32 in the 2^128 bit range is an IPv4 address. So your IPv4 address 216.34.181.45 as an IPv6 address is
That's actually slightly dated; it'd now be
Submission + - After IPv4, how will the internet function? (networkworld.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: There are 36 countries in the world that have over 100% per-capita usage of mobile phones, this is driving a real crunch on IPv4 addresses as more and more of these devices are data capable. The mobile network operators are acting fast to deploy IPv6 , and T-Mobile USA has had an IPv6-only trial going on for over 9 months now that only uses IPv6 addresses and NAT64 to bridge to IPv4 internet content. It is interesting to note that the original plan for IPv6 transition, dual-stack , has failed since IPv4 addresses are effectively already exhausted for many people that want them. Dual-stack also causes many other issues that has forced the IETF to generate work-arounds for end users called happy eyeballs , which conversely implies eyeballs are not happy with dual-stack, and a big stink around DNS white-listing . How will you ensure that your network, users, and services continue to work in the address fractured world of the future where some users only have IPv4 ( AT&T ), some users only have IPv6 (mobile and machine to machine as well as developing countries) and other internet nodes have both?
Comment Re:Well (Score 0) 406
Granted, you can set up a fc::/7 network,
You don't understand IPv6 well. RFC4193 space is fc00::/7, not 00fc::/7.
(Sorry, saw that error and had to jump on the bandwagon.)
Comment Re:Simple defense: (Score 0) 162
...so allow for browsing to the ARIN-designated private IP space. If someone's phishing on private space routable to your location, you've got bigger problems.
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