Re:An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
by dagw on Friday November 29, 2013 @04:35AM
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Sounds like an interesting solution for back end servers and compute clusters. Your front end or control server has IPv4 to talk to the world, but all your database and back end compute servers that only talk to the front end server can be IPv6 servers to save money.
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Re:An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
by justincormack on Friday November 29, 2013 @04:54AM
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If you use Cloudflare (and maybe other CDNs though I don't know any) they can proxy you an ipv4 address to your ipv6 only backend, so you don't really need your own ipv4.
> "Due to this situation, the market value of IPv4 addresses is rising... "
This is fantastic news. I have a private network full of them.
True, but private networking solves that issue too.
But notice that private networking is more complex. If you want to reach non-public server, either you have to log in into a public server in the same network and then open another connection, or you need VRF routing (ouch!).
With IPv6 you can just ssh into the box directly.
Re:An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
by bradgessler on Friday November 29, 2013 @07:58AM
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That's a lot of surface area you're exposing.
Yeah, this unfettered inter-networking sounds like a really bad idea. If only there was a way to control access besides fragmented addressing islands...