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echo: fidonews
to: TERRY ROATI
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2020-01-01 09:57:00
subject: Re: FidoNews 36:52 [01/07

-=> On 12-31-19 22:22, Terry Roati wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TR> On Dec 31, 2019 10:19pm, Tony Langdon wrote to Terry Roati:

 TR> Hi Tony,

 TL> You forget, I've had native IPv6 for _years_, so nothing needed to be
 TL> done to accommodate the IPv6 transport on my end.  It was the other end
 TL> of the link that upgraded their server, allowing me to switch to using
 TL> IPv6 to carry the tunnel.

 TR> Looks like I have some reading to do :)

:-)

 TL> Windows on...?  And I again don't understand the relevance here.
 TL> Again, you need to state yur assumptions.

 TR> On a windows network adding the IP's for each machine help speed up
 TR> internal connections just like a managed switch.

OK, I don't bother, and I'd probably prefer to use DNS anyway.  Sticking stuff
in hosts is a trap for the future, when you change things around and forget the
static hostname entries. :)

 TL> Domains for what?  Web servers don't need IPs for extra domains.

 TR> I can run virtual domains on Wildcat but I would like to run another
 TR> domain on my Synology NAS which would be better on a seperate IP for it
 TR> to be able to use port 80 also and do mail etc.

Yep, IPv6 would help there. :)


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