IPv6

Transition Mechanisms

• faithd can be used to translate on a per service basis.
• ptrtd is a similar and better solution, but only appears to run on Linux at this time.
• NAT-PT is also an option but it has been deprecated.
• Using one of the above, totd is still required to translate DNS.

Useful or Interesting Links

• Global IPv6 Deployment Progress Report
• SixXS IPv6 to IPv4 and IPv4 to IPv6 Website Gateway
• IPv6: An Interview with Itojun
• Generate Unique Local Address
• IPv4 Address Report

History

Date	Relevance
Mar 1996	6bone started
Jan 1, 2004	6bone prefix allocations halted.
Jul 20, 2004	Experimented with Freenet6 and Hurricane Electric tunnels
Jun 6, 2006	6bone prefix phased out (3FFE::/16)
Oct 15, 2007	IPv6 6to4 setup
Dec 17, 2007	Tera-Byte prefix (2610:78:ad::/48)
Feb 4, 2008	IPv6 records added to DNS root