I am currently hosting provider. Ipv4 addresses are about to expire and it is becoming expensive to get slots. Can I implement IPV6 on all my network and also provide my clients only IPV6 address for the site I host? I am ready to put any gateway,dns dhcp whatever required for that.
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You can run ipv6 if your upstream bandwidth provider allows you to, and if your network infrastructure supports it (more than just DHCP, etc., you need the relevant network switch / router hardware). However, you won't get many customers offering just ipv6 hosting, since there are very, very few end users capable of viewing ipv6 only traffic (i.e. not your customers, but their users). You would need to offer some kind of ipv4-to-ipv6 translation and build that into your solution. From the basic nature of your question - I would surmise you're not ready to do this yet and should probably do a lot more reading first. | |||||||||
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For the foreseeable future a lot of visitors to your site will not have IPv6 and will therefore still need to be able to reach it over IPv4. Because you are in the APNIC region and APNIC has already run out of IPv4 addresses you can expect that more and more of your visitors are going to get a bad IPv4 connection. ISPs will need to use NAT and other such mechanisms to supply their customers. Hopefully those ISPs will also offer IPv6 to those customers. If you make your site reachable over both IPv4 and IPv6 those visitors won't need to go through NAT to reach you, which will probably give them a better experience. | |||
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If your hosting doesn't provide native IPv6 you can use a tunneling provider like Hurricane Electric. As an example the host company Linode has IPv6 native support at many sites but not all, tunneling can be used at those sites without. They provide documentation to illustrate the task. Tunneling guide: http://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6-tunnels Linode's native IPv6 guide for reference: | |||
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