Fix6 – IPv6 News and info

http://www.ripe.net/ipv6-address-types/

Source: @rfc3849 on Twitter

CFS, A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers, has added BETA support to their firewall:

5.04

Added BETA IPv6 support. See csf.conf for more information on the new
settings: IPV6 IP6TABLES IPV6_ICMP_STRICT IPV6_SPI TCP6_IN TCP6_OUT
UDP6_IN UDP6_OUT

New CLI option csf –status6 (csf -l6) added to list ip6tables rules

Changed temporary DENY and ACCEPT working file formats to use a
different record separator to cater for future IPv6 support

Advanced Allow/Deny Filters now use | as the separator character to
cope with IPv6 addresses. Legacy support remains for the old :
separator for IPv4 addresses, though these should also now use | as
the field separator

In Server Check report, don’t issue IPv6 warning if only ::1/128 is
bound to a NIC (i.e. loopback)

Upgraded Net::CIDR::Lite to v0.21

Upgraded from IP::Countries to Geography::Countries

Read more about CFS: http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html

Dutch ISP XS4ALL will start an IPv6 pilot for a thousand users. The pilot opens on 2th of April at 10am.

The page to request the pilot can be found on: http://www.xs4all.nl/klant/ipv6/ (Dutch)

But remember, you cant request a trial until 2th of April.

There are some requirements to be able to join in the pilot:

• You will have to supply your own modem/router.
• The pilot can be canceled at any moment without notice.
• XS4ALL doesnt guarantee that it actually works.

We hope the pilot is successful and Xs4ALL can start providing IPv6 connectivity for all of their customers!

The American Registry for Internet Numbers will be holding IPv6 web hosting session at its public policy meeting, ARIN XXV, next month in Toronto, designed to bring together industry professionals, government representatives, and Internet community leaders together in an open and productive forum.

Complete info at TheWhir.

SC14452’s outstanding performance and audio quality enable enterprise / residential SIP-based VoIP phones with support for wideband audio, IPv6 support and secure calling.
Complete info at TMCnet.

The new website of the Dutch .nl ccTLD registry does not only provide a fresh new look but also IPv6 connectivity!

:~$ host www.sidn.nl
www.sidn.nl has address 213.136.31.216
www.sidn.nl has IPv6 address 2001:7b8:c05::80:1

Lets hope more registry’s pick up on this and make their site available on IPv6

XS4ALL has enabled IPv6 on their roundcube webmail client. The IPv6 enabled webmail is available on a seperate domain:

https://roundcube.ipv6.xs4all.nl/

Data Centers Canada, a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of the IPv6 to its Toronto, Ontario Canada data centers.

IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol provides many benefits in comparison to the legacy IPv4 standard. The key benefit of IPv6 is that it addresses the current need for additional IP space as the current IPv4 architecture is close to world wide depletion.

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Changes:

skip_imap_in_backups to not include email data [feature]
secure_access_group prevents read of domains/default directory [bugfix]
ips are not sorted correctly with ipv6 enabled [bugfix]
Prevent CNAME duplicate of A record [bugfix]
user_backup_pre.sh was not aborting backup on non-zero [bugfix]
better support for IPv6 in dns_a.conf and dns_aaaa.conf [bugfix]
Security issue with control of MySQL [bugfix]
check_subdomain_owner=1 gets stuck in loop [bugfix]
Security check on Referer header [bugfix]
check_subdomain_owner to allow owner to create users with subdomains [bugfix]

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The Luxembourg IPv6 Council has followed closely the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), especially the recent launch of the .eu IDN in December 2009.

The introduction of IDN will require more IP address space which is no more guaranteed by the remaining 10% of the IPv4 address pool expected to be depleted by 2011. IPv6 will therefore extend the needed IP address capacity for IDN deployment around the world.

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