IPv6 Support

[disgruntled]

IPv6 works fine - we use it. You just need to contact WHMCS with your IPv6 IP address and they can add it for you.

Then an update to the licensing module is required, because if thats the case, while the day to day running works with IPv6 the licensing module clearly doesnt. that means not only will this affect the whmcs call home, but the call home of all other modules that use the whmcs licensing module, my cPanel theme for one. good job im not IPv6 ready

[sgrayban]

Ya the licensing addon doesn't account for both IPv4 and IPv6 for the same service. If you reissue those it will only detect the first IP it sees which is really a pain in the ass.

Because now my WHMCS install works fine so long as the user has a IPv6 connection and if they don't then WHMCS throws a invalid error claiming the license is no good when it is.

This needs to be addressed very soon as more and more people, especially from the EU, are coming from a IPv6 address but almost all North/South America is still living in the IPv4 dark ages.

[laszlof]

This needs to be addressed very soon as more and more people, especially from the EU, are coming from a IPv6 address but almost all North/South America is still living in the IPv4 dark ages.

And those people (using IPv6) are being routed through a 6-to-4 network, otherwise they wouldnt be able to access 99% of the internet thats still on IPv4. This is how we'll see it working for quite a long while. IPv6 will be pushed out to residential users first, and then routed through an ipv4 address to the rest of the internet. Once thats (mostly) done, we'll see more and more web servers (and various internet applications) supporting IPv6.

[sgrayban]

Uhh I'm not sure where you are getting your info from but the majority of people in the EU have native IPv6 routes. That means its not a tunnel. It's the majority in North America that is using 6to4 tunnels.

And everything OS wise now supports IPv6 including Windows XP and newer. XP you could install IPv6 as a option where as 7 its automatically installed.

All linux distros have offered IPv6 for the last 3-4 years and all major software like apache has IPv6 coded in for the last 5 years.

[laszlof]

Uhh I'm not sure where you are getting your info from but the majority of people in the EU have native IPv6 routes. That means its not a tunnel. It's the majority in North America that is using 6to4 tunnels.

And everything OS wise now supports IPv6 including Windows XP and newer. XP you could install IPv6 as a option where as 7 its automatically installed.

All linux distros have offered IPv6 for the last 3-4 years and all major software like apache has IPv6 coded in for the last 5 years.

Take a look how many web servers are offering AAAA records for their content. If EU was not using 6-4 routes, they wouldnt be able to access most of the internet.

I understand that there is client support on all the OS's, however, ISP's are still dropping IPv4 addresses to their clients. Until there is MUCH more saturations in the residential IPv6 market, we wont see the servers using it.

[laszlof]

Erm, I said they wouldnt be able to access 99% of the internet, make that more like 97% of the internet.

Source: http://www.circleid.com/posts/201202...of_registrars/

only 3% of internet zones have AAAA records in them. Unless those IPv6 users are happy with only using 3% of the internet, they are using a 6 to 4 tunnel.

[sgrayban]

Oh so you mean that all point-to-point protocols for IPv6 is using a tunnel... that's partially true.

In the EU users that have native IPv6 are really using IPv6 -- but when they want to connect to a IPv4 address the ISP reroutes that via a IPv4 tunnel that does not mean the user(s) installed a IPv4/6 tunnel.

I have a native IPv6 address route however when I can only access a IPv4 address my ISP re-routes me through their own tunnel, I don't.

[sgrayban]

In any case this thread pertains to the fact that the licensing addon does not recongize both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and that needs to be addressed regardless how anyone gets to the website.

[laszlof]

but when they want to connect to a IPv4 address the ISP reroutes that via a IPv4 tunnel that does not mean the user(s) installed a IPv4/6 tunnel.

Yeah, thats not at all what I mean. I meant that the IPv6 traffic is mostly localized to their ISP. Anything beyond that gets translated to IPv4 to access resources on the internet.

Its the first step in the process (as I previously explained), before we'll see major routers/webhosts/etc deploying it.

[sgrayban]

Frank the thread is about needing IPv6 to work for the licensing addon regardless of how they are using IPv6. The software and apache both support IPv6 and thus so should the licensing addon.