IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks

Tue Oct 27 15:41:46 UTC 2009

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> But yes, the network stack itself is a different question, then again,
> you can just route a /64 into the loopback device and let your apache
> listen there... (which also allows you to do easy-failover as you can
> move that complete /64 to a different box ;)
> 

You are still comparing an application level decision to a stack level 
decision. Thousands of addresses on a stack could definitely pose an 
issue depending on the OS.

Jack