If you do not have a public IPv6 address that enables your system to communicate over IPv6 outside your local network, you can obtain one from an IPv6 broker. The Wikipedia IPv6 Tunnel Broker page lists several brokers and their features, such as whether they provide static addresses and the supported routing protocols.
After configuring your server host to use a broker-supplied IPv6
address, start the MySQL server with an appropriate
--bind-address
option to permit
the server to accept IPv6 connections. For example, put the
following lines in the server option file and restart the
server:
[mysqld]
bind-address = * # before 5.6.6, use :: rather than *
Alternatively, you can bind the server to the specific IPv6
address provided by the broker, but that makes the server more
restrictive for TCP/IP connections. It accepts only IPv6
connections for that single address and rejects IPv4
connections. For more information, see the
--bind-address
description in
Section 5.1.6, “Server Command Options”. In addition, if the broker
allocates dynamic addresses, the address provided for your
system might change the next time you connect to the broker. If
so, any accounts you create that name the original address
become invalid. To bind to a specific address but avoid this
change-of-address problem, you may be able to arrange with the
broker for a static IPv6 address.
The following example shows how to use Freenet6 as the broker and the gogoc IPv6 client package on Gentoo Linux.
Create an account at Freenet6 by visiting this URL and signing up:
http://gogonet.gogo6.com
After creating the account, go to this URL, sign in, and create a user ID and password for the IPv6 broker:
http://gogonet.gogo6.com/page/freenet6-registration
As
root
, install gogoc:shell> emerge gogoc
Edit
/etc/gogoc/gogoc.conf
to set theuserid
andpassword
values. For example:userid=gogouser passwd=gogopass
Start gogoc:
shell> /etc/init.d/gogoc start
To start gogoc each time your system boots, execute this command:
shell> rc-update add gogoc default
Use ping6 to try to ping a host:
shell> ping6 ipv6.google.com
To see your IPv6 address:
shell> ifconfig tun