IPv6 missiong options

Submitted by signet on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 06:41 Pro Licensee

Hi,

We are doing more and more with IPv6 and we noticed that the Virtuamin interface isn't reachable over IPv6, is that something we are doing wrong or does Virtualmin lacks support for this?

Further, when we create a new Virtual Server, we can't set-up a IPv6 address as a shared address. This is strange because Apache does support this feature (we use it ourself on a non-Virtualmin box). How can we fix this?

With regards,

Justin.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 11:52

Virtualmin should be fully ipv6 reachable by default, and able to setup v6 addresses for domains.

If you go to Webmin -> Networking -> Network Configuration -> Network Interfaces, can you see the existing ipv6 address on your system?

Submitted by signet on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 07:39 Pro Licensee

Hi,

The server has indeed a working IPv6 address and IPv6 works, but the problem is that Virtualmin has a requirement that every Virtual Server has an unique IPv6 address. This isn't what we want, we want to do hosting with one shared IPv6 address, as with IPv4.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 16:32

Sorry, but at the moment that isn't supported - the assumption Virtualmin makes is that IPv6 addresses are abundant enough that there is no need to share a single address between domains.

Submitted by gromm on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 11:59

Yes, that's actually kind of the point with IPv6. Every domain can have a unique IP address. Sure, Apache can do virtual servers with domains sharing a common IP, but that's just a kludgy workaround to the problem of IPv4 exhaustion.

If you have IPv6 addresses, you have enough for all the domains you host. More than likely you have enough IPs for all the domains in the world, if you've been assigned a /64 (very common) or even a /96.