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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nuno Silva Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 23:09:07 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: <100liu3$322u6$1@dont-email.me> References: <100c243$c9t$1@reader1.panix.com> <100hcol$3nsd6$1@news1.tnib.de> <100hiha$25ta5$4@dont-email.me> <100jqbn$4nh8$1@news1.tnib.de> <100kr28$2sf5j$2@dont-email.me> <100l8kn$80aq$1@news1.tnib.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 00:09:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="546a358aad7e984f931cff2fda2c1143"; logging-data="3214278"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bIDW7Q6+Y+UV0aNy10IwQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wp7DquKaEfDDBdpgK/mg6c7wQiY= On 2025-05-21, Marc Haber wrote: > Bobbie Sellers wrote: >> IVP6 comes from having too many web sites to fit in IVP4. > > No. THAT issue has been solved with name-based virtual hosting and > SNI. Which is too bad since it decreases the pressure to get rid of > v4. Here the IPv4 problem is not websites, but hosts/nodes/devices. IPv4 only survives because of NAT. IPv6 seems to make it quite easy to get non-local addresses. At least when properly deployed. >>If you pay attention to the larger picture you might know that. That >>the protocol has not been properly instituted everywhere it should >>have been is not the fault of the designers but of people who learned >>IVP4 and think nothing better can come along. > > And it is the fault of the persons who are SO acquainted with the > crutches that v4 needs to limp ahead that they actually think that a > protocol that doesn't need THESE¹ crutches is crippled. > > Greetings > Marc > > ¹ I am not saying that IPv6 is the best protocol ever but it's the > best we've got at the moment. What would be a good description/introduction/... in textual form of IPv6 to introduce people to the way it's intended to be used? Stuff like mentioning address scopes, RAs, DHCP, multicast... -- Nuno Silva