Yesterday I reinstalled my server with ubuntu 9.10 as a vm using virt-manager, less than an hour’s work I guess. Next I started to set up mail using dovecot and postfix but for some strange reason they seemed to default to IPv6 settings so I couldn’t connect using IPv4. Not a major problem and easily sorted, but when are we going to see widespread use of IPv6 in the UK?

Within a few years the remaining IPv4 addresses will run out. may happen very quickly given the increased internet use in countries such as India and China.

My ISP, AAISP support IPv6 tunnelled or natively, google offer IPv6 searches, but there’s not much about. There are few, if any, widely available IPv6 capable routers. No soho firewalls that are easy enough for general users to configure. Apparently BT have no plans to support IPv6 on their 21cn network – supposedly fit for the new century.

Could be quite a mess when does all happen.