At 08:17 -0800 27/1/10, zapcat wrote: >On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: >> +1 >> not only is it not experimental, its been the real deal since the >>mid 1990's. >> You can only expect usage of IPv6 to increase exponentially moving forward. >the way I read these comments is that the choice is between >potentially faster page loading, or access to an ever-greater number >of web pages. is this about right? An ever greater number of web sites rather than web pages. But as time goes on, more and more of them will be the ones you use now rather than new ones. Page loading isn't changed. It's the time to do the DNS that slows you down. Once all DNS servers are really geared up for IPv6 it shouldn't be much different. Trouble is, for DNS to work, companies that serve out web pages (not only ISPs) need to have two outward facing DNS servers, and there's a tendency to just re-purpose some old box that the secretary has grown out of rather than use a good purpose-architected box. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk