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- jessecollins, on 10/12/2007, -12/+159* insert witty "the tubes are going to be full" joke here *
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -11/+140Vista has built in pipecleaners, to ensure proper tube flow. Everything will be ok.
- birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -9/+124Doomsayers are my second favourite after conspiracy theorists. :)
- st1nkf1nger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+95I wish I had built in pipecleaners :(
- KWhat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+74Dont all other OS's support ipv6 already... if it was such a bad idea, why was it created?
- mcdavis941, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68NEWS FLASH! Internet traffic to increase over time!
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59Seriously, how many times have we heard that some new technology was going to bring the Internet to a halt? I remember when cable and DSL were first being introduced, people said that the Internet couldn't support all that bandwidth and it would just cease to function. And how many times has the Internet stopped working? Oh that's right 0 times!
- yaosio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49Guys all of these IPv6 devices are slowing down the Internet. We need to stop IPv6 before it's implemented! What's that you say? It's been out in the wild since WHEN? 2000-2002? I DEMAND JUSTICE!
- shout, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45well my OS is going to support THREE version of the Internet protocol. THREE!
- netdroid9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43...We need an 'author is retarded' bury option...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+46Windows Vista: Y2K 2.0
- mb96net, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29This is crap. Only routers that support IPv6 will even route the DNS requests to the Internet. The average Internet user doesn't have an IP v6 address that is route-able and the average ISP won't even route IPv6. This would only be an issue for small networks that use IPv6 in tandem with IPv4, not the Internet of today.
Vista won't cause this problem, the gradual migration to IPv6 will cause this problem...because every OS that wants to use both IPv4 and IPv6 will have to support both. Seriously how many web pages have an IPv6 address? - mouthster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Vista also creates tension in the Middle East, is responsible for Global Warming, and sometimes even kills puppies.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Vista's going to drag the internet down to a halt because an insane number of people will be downloading it illegally.
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21KWhat: XP ALREADY supports IPv6. Vista just enables it by default.
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23@KWhat
IPv6 is not a bad thing it is a necessary evolution in ip technology. the current IPv4 addressing scheme is limited to 4,294,967,296 ip addresses. witch seams like a lot more than it is you figure the average person has 1 pc at work and 1 at home and that adds up.IPv6 allows 34000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (ish i think that is 37 0's )addresses to be assigned.
what is the problem that is arising is the transition period will take many years so most people will have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses witch they say will double the strain on the dns servers. witch i relay doubt. - Virion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Duh, the problem is so obvious, IPv4 and IPv6 at once will add up to IPv10, which will misread as a binary 2, crashing the Internet and leading to a rebellious overthrow headed by token-ring fanatics.
Better get you aluminum shielding on computer to keep it safe! - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -22/+40No Vista just fails all the time and doesn't bother to try very hard. :)
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Ubuntu comes default to try ipv6 first then fail to ipv4
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -15/+32This is just one conspiracy nut trying to tarnish Microsoft's new product before it is even released. What a jerk.
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"And how many times has the Internet stopped working? Oh that's right 0 times!"
You must not have Comcast.... - o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It will stall it because of the sudden increase in torrent traffic, or what?
- mexter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It was an expensive nothing, to be sure.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14They've got an quote right at the top of the second page of the article, calling this exactly what it is: FUD.
I guess this is cnet's new strategy: post ***** news, and make sure to point out that it *is* *****, right in the article.
Next up,
"HAIRY GUY ON STREET CORNER SAYS ARMEGEDDON THIS TUESDAY" - alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Isn't that what Vista does also?
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Good question... I had to Wiki it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5 - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"This is just one conspiracy nut"
Conspiracy nut? Maybe he is, but he's also a guy talking about the very same DNS system he helped invent. - cyberbian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11We already know that Vista will eat your children after all ;)
- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13On his bridge to nowhere ;)
- dr3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Vista is the first Windows version to support the new IP version 6"
***** / buried - porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11...and it also eats small children.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Well, that's mostly because for the 4-5 years prior programmers were working overtime to rewrite all the code that would be affected.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Marked as super lame.
Find a new target other than MS, it's getting old... - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I hate articles like this.
Page 1: Wild speculation! DOOM GLOOM!
Page 2: Uh never mind, actually it's a non-issue. Thanks for the extra page click. K THNX - simpat1zq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Good thing I only surf using IP addy's....in binary.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Maybe I missed something... what happened to ipv5?
- mnemonicmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11mb96net: "Seriously how many web pages have an IPv6 address?"
Web pages don't have IP addresses. Web servers do. Most web servers are owned by big corporations that have the capital to invest in better systems that will eventually make them profit. Thus it will be an issue. - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Well, I guess Verisign better start saving up some of its dirty money for some new DNS servers.
Also, I agree with maninblac1. - kivimaki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The penguins got roads. Now they demand Internets.
- Crypty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Y2K ended up to be nothing.
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I think this is kind of sensationalist. Since the adoption of Vista is not likely to be immediate, or widespread, Windows 2000 is still the most used Windows version in the US. It's not like XP came around and rewrote the book.
Plus this doesn't address the issue of, if the IPv6 request is successful, does it bother to make the IPv4 request? If not, then it won't be so bad. Plus i suspect somewhere deep in the registry you'll be able to modify the networking properties so that only IPv6 is used. Also, all the backbones and government will be switched over in 2008. Meh. - SugarRay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9..exactly why you suck and should be dugg down... oh wait, that already works
- H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8How can it be any worst than the Tom and Katie baby pics slowing down the Internet?
- sporkmonger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9blapierre:
That's not really quite correct. The Internet was effectively brought down by the Morris worm in 1988. So it has happened before. - shawnz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Windows XP: start > run > "ipv6 install"
*cough* - Daedalus2067, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This is simply absurd - it's a claim that supporting IPv6 is a bad thing. What an idiot.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It'll be due to the bigger security updates everyone needs to download for VISTA.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This comming Tuesday?
*****, I'd better make plans and kill all those people that pissed me off in grade school! - vermicin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you remember, Linux/Unix geeks have a hard-on for running DNS and other servers of that "low demand" type on ghetto hardware. They'll brag nonstop about how they run a DNS server on a 386 with 2 megs of ram.
Wow, upgrade to a 500 dollar dell box, problem solved for another few years.
You people should be paying me for this. - alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Vista's going to drag the Internet down to a halt because an insane number of people will be downloading it illegally."
And legally. I think Microsoft wants to get RC1 out to 4,000,000 people. What is that? 10,800 TB of data transferred?
Of course, that's assuming that everyone only downloads just one copy of the 32 bit version. (the 64 bit version is bigger, some users will download that instead, and some will download many copies of both.)
wow, that's a lot of bandwidth. :S -
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