- IPv6 news and information

Every year in the Netherlands we have an event called “the glass house” by radio station 3FM to raise money for a charity.

This year the collected money will go to red cross foundation to help the fight against malaria!

This year the streams are reachable by IPv6. The IPv6 streams have an advantage over the regular stream because they have been upscaled to 3Mbit/s.

The streams are:

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_main.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_brievenbus.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_cam1.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_djcam.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_buitenshot.asx

So check the streams out, and make sure you donate a few Euro’s by requesting a good song on  http://seriousrequest.3fm.nl/

There are many social network site available. Like Facebook and Hyves there are network sites for any topic you can imagine including IPv6.

gogoNET is a social network dedicated to IPv6 professionals. With help for IPv6 deployment from others who have hands-on experience from doing it before, discussion forums and country based groups.

There are over 9000 members who are active on the discussion forums. Members have the possibility to make blog posts for others to read, participate in discussions and help each other  with problems.

gogoNET provides free IPv6 connectivity through their Freenet6 tunnel broker service. They have recently introduced two new Freenet6 services:

• Reverse tunnel, to provide IPv4 connectivity in an IPv6 network
• Home Access, to provide easy and reliable connectivity to private networks from the Internet.

So if you are looking for a place with blogs, videos, presentations and discussions about IPv6 with other IPv6 professionals be sure to check out gogoNET and join the network!

Major European hoster STRATO rolls out IPv6 on a large scale.

From now on all STRATO HighQ and Windows servers and associated infrastructure are completely IPv6 ready.

STRATO offers basic or advanced IPv6 support. The basic support includes an single IPv6 address that is configured on the server. With advanced support customers receive a /56 IPv6 subnet for their server which they can configure services on.

The full (German) press article can be found on the STRATO website: http://www.strato.de

Just a quick update. The site has a new look. Its a bit more easy on the eyes and handles my WordPress skills a little better then the last one.

There is a new category named Tiny news. Post in this category will have short news or info about any and all IPv6 related things and a link where they can be found. These posts will be included in the RSS and on Twitter but not on the main page.

On the sidebar you will find an couple of tweets from the IPv6 reposter on Twitter, so its always a surprise what kind of tweets it will hold!

update: oh and the poll was broken, its fixed now!

The results from the previous poll have been processed by our IPv6 enabled process-monkeys (that being me).

 

Hopefully it shows a little about what the current number of IPv6 connections at people’s homes are. Based on the target group of this website (tech based).

 

The question was, Do you have IPv6 at your home network?, was answered with the following results:

Total votes:  282

 

Yes: 159  (~56%):
88 votes via IPv6, 71 via IPv4.
From those 88 voters about ~36% was using an IPv6 tunnel.*

 

No: 123 (~44%):
6 votes via IPv6, 117 via IPv4
From those 6 voters about ~50% was using an IPv6 tunnel.*

 

But what does this mean? Well the people who voted yes (56%) more then half voted using an IPv6 connection. And from those about 36% was using a tunnel, or you could say that 64% has a native IPv6 connection!

 

And that more then half of the voters have an IPv6 network at home! And thats quiet a lot! But ofcourse we have to realize that the people who voted are on this website because it is IPv6 related, and therefor there is a bigger chance that he/she has an IPv6 enabled network at home.

 

And if you are reading this, don’t forget to vote on the new poll!

 

*Method used is searching for know tunnel prefixes from tunnel brokers.
We won’t stand by our results but we do stand by our methodologies.

After 280 votes on the last poll i have decided to put a new poll online. The results of the previous poll will be online asap.

The new poll is based on the question what would benefit the usage of IPv6 the most. If you want to comment on your vote you can do so in the comments of this post!

So don’t wait any longer and vote!