[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-09-21 kl. 16:09, skrev Scott Dorsey:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do you have any reference to such an router? I'd just like
>> to read up some on what it looks like in the router GUI
>> then doing the config work.
>
> Check the manual that came with your home router, it likely has the
> features.

I'll check. I just noted that IPv6 is "disabled" b.t.w.

>
>> And what about some non-technical customer that just would
>> like to have access to some IPv6 home security device?
>> Is it easy enough for non-technical people to use?
>
> It is WAY easier than using some dyndns horror to make a dynamic
> internal address have a fixed fqdn.  WAY easier.  You can't believe
> how much easier.
>
>> Today, that is solved by having the device announcing itself
>> to some publicaly available server where the user from the
>> "outside" can get the IP and port to access the device.
>> Like TeamViewer does today.
>
> Which means NOW your system becomes dependent on some external server
> and on connectivity to that server.  Yucch.
>

It still works "out of the box" by any non-tech people.
Nothing to configure in your local router at all.

>> I guess there will be similar solutions using IPv6 also,
>> since that is much easier to use for non-tech people.
>> You never see or have to know any IP addresses at all.
>
> Back in the late eighties we got dns so that you wouldn't ever need to
> know any IP addresses.  And that worked pretty well until...

In that time, *all* users of/on the internat was techincaly
knowledable people. One cannot compare that time with "today"
or "tomorrow".

> the congestion
> got bad and people started having to use cheesy workarounds like dynamic
> addressing and NAT.  Once those workarounds go away, we'll be back in a
> world of straight DNS.
> --scott
>