Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 10/21/10 2:59 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> 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).

linux/unix machines can trivially build ip-tunnels of several flavors.

> -brandon