[OT] IPv6 applications in active use

[Jørgen Hovland]

On 11 Apr 2002, Ben Winslow wrote:

> Jeroen's post sparked interest in knowing what people are currently
> using with IPv6 support on a regular basis.  I'll add what I can think
> of off the top of my head and add some questions that may benefit other
> list members as well as myself.
> > I personally use on day by day basis, IPv6 enabled:
> >  - SSH (PuTTY :)
> How did you accomplish this?  PuTTY seems to use IPv4 for me, although
> OpenSSH (which I use the majority of the time by far) works fine.
> >  - SMTP
> >  - Quake 1 + 2*
> >  - HTTP
> >  - X
> I'm curious: Have you accomplished this without ssh tunneling?  (Not
> that it's a good idea to do otherwise much anymore, but...)
> >
> I've also been wondering (although this is really beyond the scope of
> the list) why Mozilla on Win32 lacks IPv6 support (IE works fine.)  I
> believe that WinXP ships with integrated IPv6 (I've never used it, so I
> can't say for certain), so it seems a little puzzling to me that IPv6
> support is not there at all.
>
> As for IPv6 applications I use on a regular basis, the ones that
> immediately come to mind are:
> HTTP...LAN/Internet/Host
> SSH....LAN/Internet/Host (mostly LAN)
> Finger..............Host
> (I claim to have the only IPv6-enabled finger daemon written in shell
> script--it even does ident lookups.  finger @halcyon.bluecherry.net or
> http://halcyon.bluecherry.net/~rain/simple-fingerd (warning: ugly hack))
> IRC....LAN/Internet/Host
> (If anyone on the list frequents Efnet, hybrid-7 has IPv6
> support--assuming they get a move on, this should make it the largest
> IPv6-enabled network (assuming that people run ircd on ipv6 hosts, but I
> have reason to believe that some will))
> X......LAN
> (via SSH)
>
> Mail is one place I'd like to see IPv6 support improve for.  Do any MTAs
> besides Exim support IPv6?  What MUAs support IPv6?

Sendmail works grrreat... (you need to recompile it with ipv6 support and
make a new mc)


>
> ssh, HTTP, and nfs make up the majority of my traffic, so I'm more or
> less content.
>

I also use ipv6 for streaming, multicast streaming and ftp


Joergen Hovland

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