ipv6 vs. LAMP

Thu Oct 21 22:06:18 UTC 2010

On 10/21/10 2:59 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 21/10/10 14:43 -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>>
>>> In a message written on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher
>>> McCrory wrote:
>>>
>>>> open to the world.  After a few google searches, it seems that
>>>> PostgreSQL is in a similar situation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know when PostgreSQL first supported IPv6, but it works just
>>> fine.  I just fired up a stock FreeBSD 8.1 system and built the Postgres
>>> 8.4 port with no changes, and viola:
>>>
>>
>> All this is pretty moot point if you run a localized copy of your database
>> (mysql or postgres) and connect via unix domains sockets.
>>
>>
> True. It mostly affects shared/smaller hosting providers who have customers
> that want direct access to the database remotely over the public network
> (and don't want to use some local admin tool such as phpMyAdmin).

linux/unix machines can trivially build ip-tunnels of several flavors.

> -brandon
> 