On 25/06/2014 22:57, Ben wrote: ...
I'd rather uptake of IPv6 was controlled and functional myself. If you take a look around the current IPv6 Network most people haven't even configured reverse DNS.
No, and that will probably continue. Relying on reverse DNS for much of anything is a bad idea anyway, and hopefully it will fade away as IPv6 makes it less and less useful.
The main usage cases where IPv6 is beneficial is in situations like Skype, where clients on shared networks want to create direct connections to each other.
Er, no, the main use case is where a provider has actually run out of IPv4 addresses, and this is starting to happen in some places. And the other main value of course is for applications that are severely damaged by NAT, which is still as real a problem as it has been for 20 years, although people have got used to it.
Any Skype still doesn't support IPv6 AFAIK. The benefits of web servers, and email servers having concurrent IPv6 and IPv4 is mostly as a kind of proof-of-concept.
Huh? Given the recent growth in IPv6 acccesses reported by Google and Facebook, I think we are a long way past the proof of concept phase or geeks-only usage. You're right about Skype though. BitTorrent has cracked the dual stack p2p problem but not Skype. Brian