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Bittorrent client Transmission version 1.80 has been released. The release notes (http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-1.80) say ”Improved IPv6 support” … what would that mean? My hope is of course that the webinterface of Transmission is now IPv6-enabled. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (alpha 2) has Transmission 1.80, so I’ve run Lucid to see if the webinterface is indeed IPv6 enabled …But

Even though IPv6 adoption is dangerously slow, we will see adoption eventually. There are three main sections of the Internet that need to handle IPv6. The Internet networking equipment like routers, proxies and firewalls, and services like DNS and routing need to support IPv6 so that clients can talk to servers that users are connecting to from giants like Google and Amazon to smaller web, email and other hosts. Then, there are the enterprise and consumer products that will connect to Internet hosts. The question remains how to deliver IPv6 services in a non-disruptive manner to consumers in homes, small businesses and enterprises, all of whom can’t control either the content being provided or the consumers visiting that content.

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Python 2.7 alpha 1 was recently released. It contains a few bugfixes that I contributed to IPv6-enable imaplib and nntplib.

ISOC Argentina, in cooperation with the 6DEPLOY project, has released a new IPv6 Book “IPv6 for All: Usage and Application Guide for different environments”.

It is targeted to different types of readers, including end users, SOHO, enterprise, education and research networks, and ISPs. It also includes a section on how to deploy several IPv6 services.
The first edition is available in Spanish and can be downloaded here. Soon a new edition will be released in English and other languages being considered.

Traffic on the internet has continued to grow despite the economic crisis, industry insiders say.
Complete info at Periscope IT.

uTorrent is a great graphical tool to activate Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP.However, uTorrent on Windows Vista is quite silly: with the IPv6-only tracker tracker.sixxs.net, uTorrent says “hostname not found”. Grrrr! And do remember: on Vista Teredo IPv6 is enabled by default, so IPv6 should work. Probably uTorrent is using Vista’s braindead name resolving, meaning: no AAAA lookups with Teredo IPv6.