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Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

  • From: Brandon Galbraith
  • Date: Thu Oct 21 18:00:09 2010

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dan White <dwhite@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).

-brandon

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