In the end the patch wasn't accepted into Debian because of some corner case much as you say. I didn't push harder because it seems there are probably better ways of making sure IPv6 works for more people.
I continue to push for IPv6 support, and at Catalyst we now have three nameservers, mail server, LAN, IRC server, Proxy server, wireless LAN and various web servers all actively available and using IPv6.
Learning through doing does expose problems that I don't think you see or think about in testing, but the setup generally works well.
We've pretty much reached the stage where everything we run could be IPv6 enabled, and it's just a matter of steadily increasing our coverage while understanding and working round any issues.
Corner Cases
Yeah... maybe :-)
In the end the patch wasn't accepted into Debian because of some corner case much as you say. I didn't push harder because it seems there are probably better ways of making sure IPv6 works for more people.
I continue to push for IPv6 support, and at Catalyst we now have three nameservers, mail server, LAN, IRC server, Proxy server, wireless LAN and various web servers all actively available and using IPv6.
Learning through doing does expose problems that I don't think you see or think about in testing, but the setup generally works well.
We've pretty much reached the stage where everything we run could be IPv6 enabled, and it's just a matter of steadily increasing our coverage while understanding and working round any issues.
Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.