[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[Dirk Munk]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dirk Munk  <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Great, and how does the router know the IPv6 address of Microsoft, or
>> even better, how does the router know it has to send the packet to the
>> IPv6 address of Microsoft?
>
> You can set up a lookup table.  But for the most part, the address
> translation is really only practical for incoming connections, to make
> an existing v4 server exist in a v6 world.  The lookup table is useful
> if you have a system that makes connections to a small number of addresses,
> though.
>
> However, for that application it's marvelous.
> --scott
>

Yes, there it's possible.