Moving Servers: This site is going offline soon

As some of you may know, there has been a change on the internet regarding IP addresses, basically the world was due to run out of IP addresses so the system has been upgraded, and all websites need to be moved to accommodate!

This means for a few hours when this work is carried out, this site will go offline. Not sure as to when, but it is happening in the coming few days and in the early hours - for the Americans doing this... so for us that might be late morning

So your hosts are moving to Ipv6 interesting, that's going to make security much more interesting.

There's no anonymity when you don't have NAT and suddenly every computer is an open target to all hackers everywhere, saying that there is nothing requiring any of us to switch to Ipv6 soon.

I have been avoiding even thinking about Ipv6 so I don't really know that much myself yet, just some basics, I should have gotten a bit deeper into it a few years ago, one thing you won't be doing is pinging an ipv6 address not when it looks like this

xe80::bxxa:6xxd:axxx:46xa%1x

the x's are deliberate in the above address as otherwise it would precisely identify one of my machines, whereas the ipv4 192.168.0.5 would not.

I've just finished a bottle and a shed load of features to a program that I am writing

I would not worry Peter, at least not yet.

Most broadband routers are strictly ipv4, however they still appear to route ipv6 as well, sites are basically moving the DNS name resolution over to ipv6, so when your computer tries to work out where www.google.co.uk is it will get a reply that is firstly an ipv6 address and if your hardware can't use that then I guess you will get back an ipv4 address, not completely sure about it all yet.

They will not take a chance of breaking the internet for anyone, so the old ipv4 network must be relegated to a tiny sub network of the real internet, ipv6 has an inexhaustible supply of addresses, seriously there is no way they will run out in any reasonable period of time, like 50,000 years maybe, probably a million years, I doubt we will be around as a species to be honest.

The real issue for home users using ipv6 is that their computer now has a globally unique address that they cannot hide, any request from your machine will become uniquely identifiable, however this will only happen if your primary protocol is ipv6 and this will probably not be the case for most folk.

ISP's will try to move to ipv6 though so this will not be a static situation.

Yup, though not making a big deal out of it, here was the email they sent to me..