Current Status of IPv6 Support for Networking Applications
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Current Status of IPv6 Support for Networking Applications

Peter Bieringer
Federico Baraldi
Simone Piunno
Mauro Tortonesi
Emanuele Toselli
Dario Tumiati

Table of Contents

1. Contents
2. Organization of the IPv6 status page
2.1. Meaning of the URLs field
2.2. Meaning of the Status field
3. Service List
4. Super Daemons and Wrappers
4.1. Inetd (7:echo, 9:discard, 13:daytime, 19:chargen)
4.2. TCP Wrappers
5. Sun RPC
5.1. Portmapper (111:sunrpc)
6. File Sharing
6.1. SMB (445:microsoft-ds)
7. File Transfer
7.1. FTP (21:ftp, 20:ftp-data [active])
7.2. RSYNC (873:rsync)
7.3. TFTP (69:udp)
8. Remote shell/login
8.1. Telnet (23:telnet)
8.2. Secure Shell (22:ssh)
8.3. R-Tools (512/tcp:exec, 513/tcp:login, 514/tcp:cmd)
9. E-Mail
9.1. Mail Transfer Agents and Mail User Agents (25:smtp)
9.2. Mailbox daemons (109:pop2, 110:pop3, 143:imap4, 220:imap3, 993:imaps, 995:pop3s)
9.3. Webmail
10. Domain Name System
10.1. Domain Name System (53:domain)
11. Information
11.1. Whois (43:whois)
11.2. Finger (79:finger)
12. HTTP
12.1. HyperText Transfer Protocol (80:http, 443:https)
13. Authentication
13.1. Ident (113:auth)
13.2. Kerberos
13.3. Simple Authentication and Security Layer
14. News
14.1. News (119:nntp)
15. Network Time Protocol
15.1. Network Time Protocol (123:ntp)
16. Chat
16.1. Internet Relay Chat (194:irc, 6667:ircd)
16.2. Jabber (5222:client-server, 5269:server-server)
17. Printing
17.1. IPP Server and Client (631:ipp)
18. LDAP
18.1. LDAP Server and Client (389:ldap, 636:ldaps)
19. X Windows
19.1. X Windows Systems (6000:x11)
20. Network Configuration
20.1. Host Configuration
20.2. Utilities
20.3. Routing
21. Logging
21.1. Event Logging
22. Development, Testing and Debugging
22.1. Application & Services Development
22.2. Applications & Services Testing and Debugging
22.3. Programming languages
23. Network Testing and Debugging
23.1. Link Testing
23.2. Route Testing
24. Security
24.1. Security-Related Tools
25. Multimedia
25.1. MP3 Players and Encoders
25.2. Movie Players and Encoders
25.3. VOIP/IP-Telephony & Videoconferencing
25.4. Audio & Video Streaming Applications
26. Transition Tools
26.1. Transition Tools
27. Contact us
28. Other sources of information
29. Credits

This page shows the current status of IPv6 support of the most important networking applications for Linux and *BSD. We started from the Peter Bieringer's work on his famous IPv6 Status Page and tried to extend the information provided in it.

Nowadays, the number of applications with native IPv6 support is indeed significant, as most important networking applications provide native IPv6 support and there are also many developers working on unofficial patches for pretty much anything else.

It looks like the main factor that limits the spread of IPv6 is currently shifting from a lack of applications to a general lack of interest among connectivity providers. At the moment of this writing only a few ISPs offer native IPv6 Internet access to their customers.

Things are changing fast. We do our best in keeping this page up-to-date, but we need your help for this task, so please send us a report if you find inaccuracies or obsolete information in this page, or if you simply wish us to add a new application here.

Updated 09.07.2008Documentation | DeepSpace6
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