[Novalug] [Ma-linux] IPV6 Questions

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 16:31:45 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
>> Nick wrote:
>
>> If you want to just test/learn, you can easily do IPv6 behind your
>> firewall with no consequences as your firewall wont route it if you
>> don't tell it to. I suspect even if you did, your local ISP would just
>> throw the packets away. You just need quad-a records in your DNS for the
>> IPv6 addressing, then you can use your names as always.
>
> This might be an interesting talk, how to do this.  I wouldn't know how to
> setup the DNS entry needed, either.

I was just on the phone, hinting to Joe (the guy I said was in Wired)
that he ought to do a talk on the basics of IPv6 (rather than his
usual security talks) and some how-to kind of stuff.  It has to wait
til I get back from vacation though :P

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