Planned for 11.36 Make cPanel IPV6 Compatible [Case 10334]

[asturmas]

Agree. IPv6 Lauch Day is 6/6/2012, any word about this?
World IPv6 Launch

cPanel 11.32 is expected since 09/2011, so if cPanel only have IPv6 in 11.36 cPanel will only have IPv6, say in Q3 2013?
This is ridiculous...

Just for the record, lots of Dutch accessproviders will roll out IPv6 support on consumer lines within the upcoming 6 months. It would be nice (note: eufemism) to see cPanel, supplier of the most expensive control panel for the hosting industry, make a real effort on IPv6 support.

Personally I think it is totally unacceptable that this has not yet been taken care of.

[asturmas]

IPv6 its not important to cPanel?

For reference:

Plesk have ipv6 since April, 10 2011
DirectAdmin have ipv6 (dont know exact date)...

And cPanel?... In future if my customers can't enter on sites because cPanel still don't have IPV6? I loose customers and cPanel loose me ..

[cPanelDavidG]

IPv6 its not important to cPanel?

For reference:

Plesk have ipv6 since April, 10 2011
DirectAdmin have ipv6 (dont know exact date)...

And cPanel?... In future if my customers can't enter on sites because cPanel still don't have IPV6? I loose customers and cPanel loose me ..

IPv6 is important to us here at cPanel. That is why we participated in IPv6 day last year, why we participated in ARIN discussions on the topic, why we participated in IPv6 day, why we attended a presentation about using cPanel&WHM successfully in IPv6 environments at WHD 2010 by one of the many data centers already doing this and why this is a topic at all of my meetings with our development team.

Please don't confuse a lack of a hasty implementation with a lack of caring. If you have been using cPanel products for a while, you should already be aware that we prefer to implement a quality feature the first time. When we officially support IPv6 in version 11.36 (the current target ETA), we wont be making you "test it as an experimental feature" on your production servers nor will we have some implementation that makes one wonder if we're actually supporting IPv6. It will be a robust dual-stack implementation where IPv6 is supported as well as we currently support IPv4.

To accommodate the many customers already deploying cPanel&WHM in IPv6 environments, we have re-prioritized the many features that contribute to the overall goal of accommodating IPv6 as well as we support IPv4. For example, in version 11.31/11.32, we have updated our automated handling of httpd.conf to accommodate IPv6 addresses since many are already deploying cPanel&WHM in IPv6 dual-stack environments.

[asturmas]

We use cPanel to more than six years and recognize the quality of the product but I am not 100% require support for IPv6 but basic support for apache.
This means that at 11.32 this version about to leave the servers that have IPv6 enabled will automatically have apache configured to serve in dual-stack?

Thanks!

[cPanelDavidG]

We use cPanel to more than six years and recognize the quality of the product but I am not 100% require support for IPv6 but basic support for apache.
This means that at 11.32 this version about to leave the servers that have IPv6 enabled will automatically have apache configured to serve in dual-stack?

Thanks!

To be more precise, if you are currently putting IPv6 addresses into VHosts for httpd.conf, you no longer need to worry about EasyApache filtering them out.

We do not yet support associating both an IPv4 and IPv6 address with a cPanel account from within cPanel&WHM, and that is something we are working to resolve prior to our 11.36 implementation.

[CoNfOuNd]

cPanelDavidG > Approximately when can we expect 11.36? Is Q3 2013 realistic?

[cPanelDavidG]

cPanelDavidG > Approximately when can we expect 11.36? Is Q3 2013 realistic?

I have no ETA at this time. If you are looking for an ETA for business planning purposes, I recommend waiting until this functionality reaches the EDGE tier before making business plans.

[radeonpower]

Hello, I have a IPv6 tunnel setup on my cPanel server and I have it working with bind and exim. What do I have to do exactly to make Apache listen on IPv6 and assign IPv6 to a website?

[asturmas]

Hello, I have a IPv6 tunnel setup on my cPanel server and I have it working with bind and exim. What do I have to do exactly to make Apache listen on IPv6 and assign IPv6 to a website?

How to configure ipv6 to exim and bind? Do you running local bind or cPanel DNS Only?

[radeonpower]

I run one local bind and 3 DNS-Only servers.

You need to open up /etc/named.conf and put this into the options { section.

listen-on-v6 { any; };

Then save and restart named. I didnt have to do anything regarding exim, it seems to pickup all interfaces on the server.

I figured out howto make it work with apache. Open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and search for the Listen 0.0.0.0:80 line. Put your IPv6 IP below it like this:
Listen [IPv6 IP]:80

Then under Virtual host for the website you want to listen to IPv6 also:
<VirtualHost [IPv6]:80 IPv4:80>

There you go, cPanel with IPv6! You need to edit files manually though until they support it via WHM.