[BUGS] finally fixed/resolved Regarding: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address]

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Jun-25 08:39:26 +1000, Andrew Reilly <andrew at areilly.bpc-users.org> wrote:
>Where's "here" exactly?  No-one I know has an IPv6 address, and
>my ISP (bigpond cable) has made no noises on the subject that I'm
>aware of.  I'll get a lot more excited about IPv6 when some of
>the endpoints that I want to talk to have IPv6 addresses.

This is the chicken-and-egg problem.  But if you look at AAAA records
for sites that you want to visit, you might find out that quite a few
of them do.  You could use something like ports/net/freenet6 and
tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.

>I did think about running my local network on IPv6, just to get
>the hang of it, but it seems so much more complicated than IPv4
>that I haven't found the necessary tuit yet.

Likewise.

>What do you expect to happen in three years' time?  That's a long
>time in "internet time", but, we'll see...

The IPv4 address space is running out.  The actual exhaustion date
varies but about 3 years seems reasonable.  go6.net says 2.5 years.
One serious problem is that most (all?) of the IPv4 -> IPv6 transition
schemes need IPv4 addresses - which means the transition has to be
well under way before then.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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