On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:32:30 +0100 William Edwards via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> Hi Joachim, > > > Op 15 feb 2024 om 23:09 heeft Joachim Lindenberg via samba > > <samba at lists.samba.org> het volgende geschreven: > > > > ?Hi Rowland, > > No, I don?t have so many devices yet. > > Rowland believes that one should not use IPv6 internally. Many > disagree.That isn't strictly true, It isn't that I believe that you shouldn't use IPv6 internally, I just don't see the point in it, unless you have over 16 million network clients and who has that many ? Just because something nice and shiny comes along, it doesn't mean you have to use it internally, though you should probably have the option.> > > But I know some organizations that want to switch to IPv6 > > consistently and you can rephrase my question to whether Samba can > > accommodate these organizations. > > The answer is yes; Samba supports IPv6. It doesn?t support only IPv6 > however (tried this and ran into many bugs that I don?t remember). >Samba AD will use IPv6 and will attempt to do so on provision or DC join, but as has been said, there are still parts of Samba that rely on IPv4 Rowland
On 2024-02-16 at 09:53 +0000 Rowland Penny via samba sent off:> That isn't strictly true, It isn't that I believe that you shouldn't > use IPv6 internally, I just don't see the point in it, unless you have > over 16 million network clients and who has that many ? > Just because something nice and shiny comes along, it doesn't mean you > have to use it internally, though you should probably have the option.if you access your servers also via VPN you will easily see network clashes between public networks and your internal networks. This alone is a very good reason to prefer to use IPv6 "internally". Best regards Bj?rn -- SerNet GmbH - Bahnhofsallee 1b - 37081 G?ttingen phone: +495513700000 mailto:contact at sernet.com AG G?ttingen: HR-B 2816 - https://www.sernet.com Manag. Directors Johannes Loxen and Reinhild Jung data privacy policy https://www.sernet.de/privacy Free SAMBA+ AIX webinars: https://samba.plus/webinars Learn more about SAMBA+ on YouTube: https://samba.plus/youtube
On 2024-02-16 at 09:53 +0000 Rowland Penny via samba sent off:> > Rowland believes that one should not use IPv6 internally. Many > > disagree. > > That isn't strictly true, It isn't that I believe that you shouldn't > use IPv6 internally, I just don't see the point in it, unless you have > over 16 million network clients and who has that many ?on a very similar mail I've shown a good argument for IPv6 internally earlier this year, see: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2024-February/248183.html Bj?rn -- SerNet GmbH - Bahnhofsallee 1b - 37081 G?ttingen phone: +495513700000 mailto:contact at sernet.com AG G?ttingen: HR-B 2816 - https://www.sernet.com Manag. Directors Johannes Loxen and Reinhild Jung data privacy policy https://www.sernet.de/privacy