Latitude MUCK

IPv6 is a new internet protocol that was designed, in part, to address the complete exhaustion of unused internet addresses that’s expected to arrive in 2011. IPv6 has hundreds of undecillions of addresses. If you don’t know what a undecillion is, then you’re in good company. With that much address space, you could assign an address to every atom on the surface of the earth, and still have enough left over to do another hundred earths.

IPv4, the current standard, has about 4 billion IPs. Sugnificantly less than the population of the earth, and definitely not enough for future populations and all the internet enabled gear they’re going to have.

So it’s inevitable that we’re going to have to switch over at some point or another, and I’ve chosen to get it over with.

The latitude.muck.ca server is now accessible through the more newly formed IPv6 internet.

Since any given system (including yours) can be on both the new internet and the old one simultaneously, the latitude server will still be accessible through the conventional internet, so chances are this announcement won’t affect your enjoyment of the server But, I expect to see the tech savvy among you logging in through our shiney new 128 bit IP! ^.^