Is IPv6 ready?
UPDATE: It’s been some time since I posted this, but I just read a post called Linux Hardening – Quick Wins that reinforces my thinking on this point; if you don’t need a service, you shouldn’t have it running:
Disable IPv6: Unless you know that you need it, disabling IPv6 is a good idea as it is hard to monitor, making it attractive for hackers, and it’s also hard to spot security vulnerabilities in the protocol.
Again, this is no shot at IPv6, merely my point that if you’re not using it, you shouldn’t be running it.
Tonight I did ran netstat (`netstat -plunt`) on my Debian server and saw that I had some ports listening via IPv6. It’s a shame IPv6 hasn’t caught on as it’s better than IPv4 in virtually every way, and it should, especially since TCP/IPv4 was standardized in ARPANET RFC’s… in 1981! Also, IPv6 provides network level security via IPSec, which enables authentication of sender and encryption of communication path, to secure communications, all fun stuff, but while some point to the fact that the Beijing Olympics used IPv6 exclusively as a point in how far it’s come, that’s hardly saying much when the protocol went Alpha… in 1996! I mean I put things off and get distracted, sure, but come on! So while its adoption can be argued to be a case of the chicken before the egg, since I’m not using anything IPv6, nor do I or my ISP even have the capability to use it, it’s silly and perhaps dangerous to leave it running with open ports. So, if you’re not using it, disable it – it’s easy, just put on your pointy hat and follow along…
My current project at work will take me far into next year, and that’s good because I’m facing an unprecedented amount of data, that will only continue to grow. Because of this I’m finally getting to put my money where my mouth is. For years I’ve talked about my ideas and theories about how I could network disparate systems together and have them leverage each other to keep everything in sync. So, while working with Open Source to push boundaries I seem to find more ways to do more complex things. One basic idea that I’m working on now is that data sets are huge, and are only going to get huger (and hugerer) as time goes on, how to handle this has been solved a few different ways. Usually it’s someone like the 
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