Comment IP addresses don't identify users (Score 3, Insightful) 665
IP addresses don't identify people. They tell routers where to forward packets.
Can we please move beyond this 1980s idea that IP addresses identify people?
Comment Re:Slow adoption rate designates failure? (Score 1) 682
I'm not sure I follow. "Flat use" of IPv4? The IANA has allocated four
Comment Re:Michael Bolton.... (Score 1) 323
aka Richard Pryor Art
well done!
Comment Re:Class A Address Space (Score 1) 266
No one is getting preferential treatment. There have been a handful of legacy
Comment Re:What about my toaster? (Score 1) 266
The main problem with the original address allocation scheme was that it left big gaps in places that made it nice to route, but a bitch to memorize
Why do you need to memorize addresses? Use DNS (either static or link-local multicast). It's a lot easier.
Comment Re:Nothing gets fixed until it breaks (Score 1) 266
Even if you reclaimed all of the legacy
Rather than spend efforts trying (in vain) to reclaim legacy space, why not deploy IPv6?
Comment Re:There's no case for spending the money (Score 1) 545
Windows Vista, 7, 2008 and 2008 R2 have IPv6 enabled by default.
Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm 145
CurtMonash writes "Twitter was hit Saturday by a worm that caused victims' accounts to tweet favorably about the StalkDaily website. Infection occurred when one went to the profile page of a compromised account, and was largely spread by the kind of follower spam more commonly used by multi-level marketers. Apparently the worm was an XSS attack, exploiting a vulnerability created in a recent Twitter update that introduced support for OAuth, and it was created by the 17-year-old owner of the StalkDaily website. More information can be found in the comment thread to a Network World post I put up detailing the attack, or in the post itself. By evening, Twitter claimed to have closed the security hole."
Comment Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score 1) 102
Well, sort of. ff02::2 is the link-local all routers muticast group. You can ping6 that address to get the link-local address of your router.
Of course, you can also you router advertisements to have your routing table automatically populated. RAs are nice for home networks.
Comment Re:IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. (Score 5, Informative) 102
IPv6 is being deployed. For example, this shows the growth in the IPv6 routing table size during 2008: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-03/fig7.jpg
You can also check out http://sixy.ch/ for a list of IPv6-accessible web sites. It's growing weekly.
Google has launched their IPv6 trusted tester program, making many of their services reachable over IPv6.
Comment Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score 5, Insightful) 102
How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?
Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.
Comment Re:Ever? (Score 1) 340
There is no proper use of NAT.
Comment Re:D-Link and Cisco routers support IPv6 (Score 1) 264
The DIR-615 rev C1 supports IPv6 in firmware version 3.00. According to D-Link's support site, that firmware is shipping.
Comment Re:Artificially Increase Demand (Score 1) 258
It's already enabled by default in Linux distributions
That doesn't mean that every (or even most) of the apps that come with your distro handle IPv6, or that there aren't bugs with those that do. There's still a lot of software bugs to fix.
Comment Re:ipv6 increases by a factor of almost 8. (Score 1) 258
Actually, there are over 1,000 IPv6-reachable websites. See http://sixy.ch/ for a list.
