On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:39 AM, George Bonser wrote:
From: Charles N Wyble Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:23 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Ipv6 for the content provider
For the most part, I'm a data center/application administrator/content provider kind of guy. As such, I want to provide all my web content over ipv6, and support ipv6 SMTP. What are folks doing in this regard?
Do I just need to assign ip addresses to my servers, add AAAA records to my DNS server and that's it? I'm running PowerDNS for DNS, Apache for WWW. Postfix for SMTP.
Feel free to point me at any good manuals and say RTFM :)
Most load balancers these days will allow you to provision an IPv6 virtual IP that balances to v4 servers. So you can provide services over v6 without a lot of changes inside your network. You will need a DNS server that hands out AAAA records though.
And if your servers behind the LB aren't prepared for it, you lose a LOT of logging data, geolocation capabilities, and some other things if you go that route. Owen