Disabling ipv6

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Wed Jul 10 17:27:21 UTC 2013


Would test-ipv6.com or http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php give you the information you want?  Or are you
talking about a network you are not connected to...

billo

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Fernando Lozano wrote:
>
>> Given IPv6 current state, where many vulnerabilities are related to
>> autoconfiguration for home and small networks, and given the fact many
>> ISPs still doesn't support IPv6 at all, IMHO the default setting should
>> be IPv6 disabled. Any end user or sysadmin should take action only to
>> enable IPv6, not to remove the threads it represents today.
>
> As a matter of interest, how can one tell if an ISP supports IPv6?
> This is slightly OT, but I often think I'd like to try using ipv6,
> but when I ask I'm given a purely theoretical reply,
> which I don't understand, usually involving SixXS.
> Are there simple instructions anywhere, just listing the commands to use,
> and not telling me how many people in China are using the internet.
>
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