The forums are now accessible over IPv6
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The forums are now accessible over IPv6
Like openttd.org, the forums are now available over IPv6. If you have IPv6 connectivity, either via your ISP or via a tunnel, you should now be seeing shiny IPv6-enabled pages. If you don't know what this means, don't worry. If you're curious as to whether you're using IPv6 or not, you're probably not, but you can check for sure here (note that it'll take a few hours for the tt-forums DNS to update).
If you find that the site is very slow to load now (takes a while to connect, etc), please let me know - it probably means your system thinks it has IPv6, but doesn't.
Cheers,
If you find that the site is very slow to load now (takes a while to connect, etc), please let me know - it probably means your system thinks it has IPv6, but doesn't.
Cheers,
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Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
Hooray! Now I can pretend I am technologically more advanced than most of the world and enjoy generating bandwidth graphs on the ipv6 interface.
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Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
There were a few slight teething troubles earlier, which were quite possibly caused by my meddling with the server (or, well, my VPS on the same server as the forum's VPS) for which I apologise profusely. I thought I knew how it all worked, but evidently I don't! I have vowed not to touch anything until Owen comes and shows me how to fix things, in case I break the whole server again.
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Well you set it yourself earlier :
jonty-comp wrote:Now I can pretend I am technologically more advanced than most....
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Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
Nice
And another site joins the ipv6 network... If it goes on like this, i don't even need ipv4 anymore to do anything which belongs to Transport Tycoon
And another site joins the ipv6 network... If it goes on like this, i don't even need ipv4 anymore to do anything which belongs to Transport Tycoon
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Some stats:
over the past 24 hours, 5,939.2MB of bandwidth was used on the IPv4 interface, compared to 162.94MB on the IPv6 interface, so that would seem to be some 2.67% of total traffic in the past 24 hours being IPv6.
over the past 24 hours, 5,939.2MB of bandwidth was used on the IPv4 interface, compared to 162.94MB on the IPv6 interface, so that would seem to be some 2.67% of total traffic in the past 24 hours being IPv6.
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It doesn't work for me.
I feel backward.
I feel backward.
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My PC is supposed to be IPv6-enabled, but i'm not getting a IPv6 IP, even when i turn of standard TCP/IP wich just leads to no connectivity. Wonder if that's due to my ISP?
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I'm afraid not many ISPs support native IPv6 yet - in fact, in the UK at least, I believe the infrastructure can't carry it! Most people who claim to have IPv6 are using a tunnel, such as one from freenet6.net.
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Yay.
What's IPv6?
What's IPv6?
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Tried to Google for it yet?JamieLei wrote:Yay.
What's IPv6?
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The Wikipedia article is just a little confusing though, although I get the jist of it.
Hmmm - how come IPv6 deployment has been so slow despite it being 11 years old? My computer isn't IPv6 compatible according to Owen's link, but thenagain it is 6 years old (and miraculously somehow running Vista and not at a snail-pace).
Hmmm - how come IPv6 deployment has been so slow despite it being 11 years old? My computer isn't IPv6 compatible according to Owen's link, but thenagain it is 6 years old (and miraculously somehow running Vista and not at a snail-pace).
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Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
In general international treaties or protocol decisions take ages.
Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
Hmmm - but then CSS became far more quickly adopted over basic HTML. And I would have thought that it would have been harder to impliment due to the ease of learning basic HTML over CSS.
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How come we're all still using fossil fuels despite the solutions to it being (way) more than 11 years old?JamieLei wrote:Hmmm - how come IPv6 deployment has been so slow despite it being 11 years old?
If you have to make an effort, it's not worth it. Until... you can't hold the situation and everyone is running for the alternatives but they can't get it all at the same time because their hardware/software/firmware is outdated and can't be easily updated.
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Eeeeeeeh. Tough one to say for definite, but I'd rather attribute the creation of the xHTML/CSS system to the way in which the HTML basic system was (ab?)used.JamieLei wrote:Hmmm - but then CSS became far more quickly adopted over basic HTML. And I would have thought that it would have been harder to impliment due to the ease of learning basic HTML over CSS.
And xHTML/CSS works pretty much the same as HTML, only in a separate format - you still have to define stuff. It's up to you how much you define and there's a transitional xHTML so pages won't bomb if there's a strict error.
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Re: The forums are now accessible over IPv6
Some UK ISPs do offer native IPv6. Generally it require new hardware though (modem/router, etc), and until Windows Vista, operating systems (well, Microsoft operating systems) didn't support IPv6 that well.jonty-comp wrote:I'm afraid not many ISPs support native IPv6 yet - in fact, in the UK at least, I believe the infrastructure can't carry it! Most people who claim to have IPv6 are using a tunnel, such as one from freenet6.net.
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According to the official IPv6-site (top of google), XP since sp2 has included a working IPv6-protocol "intended for developing purposes", but still working.
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It works, but it isn't particularly user-friendly. Ordinarily you shouldn't need to configure it anyway, but it's probably still a better bet to use in post-XP systems.ThorRune wrote:According to the official IPv6-site (top of google), XP since sp2 has included a working IPv6-protocol "intended for developing purposes", but still working.
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