Fix6 – IPv6 News and info

RIPE NCC announced that they still have some seats for the IPv6 training course that LIR members can attend.

The focus of the IPv6 training course is to raise awareness about IPv6 and the current best practices for deploying it. It also covers IPv6 Internet addressing policies and how to obtain IPv6 address space.

If you are registered as a LIR, and interested in their IPv6 training course, please register though the LIRPortal:

https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/training/course-list.html

More information about the training:

http://www.ripe.net/training/ipv6/outline.html

Some good IPv6 news from Google

As of 18th of June (perhaps sooner) the Googlebot has been indexing websites via IPv6:

2001:4860:4801:1109:0:6006:1300:b075 – - [18/Jun/2010:08:46:05 +0200] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 69 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
2001:4860:4801:1109:0:6006:1300:b075 – - [18/Jun/2010:09:47:01 +0200] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 69 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
2001:4860:4801:1109:0:6006:1300:b075 – - [18/Jun/2010:10:48:06 +0200] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 69 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

In the logs of Fix6 i can find these request from the 18th June up until the 19th of July.

The IP is from the Google IPv6 range and resolves to:

5.7.0.b.0.0.3.1.6.0.0.6.0.0.0.0.9.0.1.1.1.0.8.4.0.6.8.4.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa domain name pointer crawl-2001-4860-4801-1109-0000-6006-1300-b075.googlebot.com.

And that reverse back the the IPv6 address. So its a Googlebot with only IPv6 connectivity!

This is some very good news! Keep up the good work Google!

Did you know Google has a Product Ideas for Google website? Perhaps we can raise some awareness how badly we like to have IPv6 support.

So please help out and vote for the following idea:

IPv6 support for Google Mail / Gmail

Hurricane Electric now offers free DNS hosting.  This service provides both native IPv6 and IPv4 authorative nameservice, supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, SRV, and PTR records, as well as IPv4 and IPv6 reverse zones.

http://dns.he.net

MONTREAL (May 25, 2010) – gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced gogoNET (gogoNET.gogo6.com), the social network for IPv6 professionals, has reached over 20,000 members since its launch in December 2009.  Upon joining gogoNET members answer a few key questions which when taken together paint an informative picture of the state of IPv6 readiness.

More information about GoGoNET and their survey can be found on http://gogonet.gogo6.com/

Our friends over at linux.com have published their thrd article in the Weekend Project series. This Weekend Project is all about IPv6 and how to get started with it.

With information and tips about setting up IPv6 connectivity at your lan.  So check it out!

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/308738-weekend-project-transition-to-ipv6

A study conducted by RIPE Labs indicates that about 1.89% of spam are received over IPv6. "With the increased deployment of IPv6, we were curious to see how much the amount of spam sent over IPv6 increases.

We looked at the e-mail system of the RIPE NCC and produced some statistics that could be seen as an indication for the overall trend of spam sent over IPv6," says RIPE in a blog post explaining the analysis. Group also notes that the study was based on one week’s worth of data and that it excluded messages already rejected by blacklisting and greylisting.

Fix6 is going to collect and maintain a list of hosting providers that offer IPv6 by default in production with support in 4 categories:

• Shared hosting
• Dedicated servers
• Virtual servers
• Colocation

So if you work for, get hosted by or know a hostingcompany that offers IPv6 by default on 1 or more of these servers AND they provide full support for it in their normal support channels you are only 1 step away from being listed.

Step 1: Contact us with the name of the hosting company and what services they offer IPv6 on! Remember only those that offer IPv6 by default and have support for it on their regular support channels get to be on the list!

Thats it! We will review your request and add it to the list as soon as possible!

Today we are talking to Wouter Schoot. Wouter is a System & Support Engineer at Oxilion. Oxilion is a large Hoster from the Netherlands with products from shared hosting to dedicated servers.

Please tell us a little about Oxilion

Oxilion was founded in April 2000 and focuses on internet services within the datacenter. The product range varies from hosting packages for the consumer market and complete solutions for the SME, based on managed virtual machines with shared storage.

All related services such as backups, disaster recovery, network connectivity and high availability are managed by our engineers.

We provide our services from five datacenters across the Netherlands and provide internet connectivity in Enschede and Amsterdam; the connections to and between all locations are redundant.

When and how did IPv6 began to be a part of Oxilion?

IPv6 developments where started immediately when Oxilion organized its network independence. Previously Oxilion used assigned PA IPv4 space from the datacenter. Becoming independent was the next step for Oxilion. We received our RIPE membership, AS-number and PA-space (IPv4 and IPv6) late 2008 and we focused the BGP routing equipment towards high-end IPv6 capable hardware.
Since Oxilion is running on this network, from the beginning of 2009, the focus on IPv6 is growing and for this year IPv6 is to be integrated in our complete product range.

What is the current status of IPv6 at Oxilion?

IPv6 is integrated in our complete network. We are running on the prefix 2a00:d10::/32 and doing about 5-10% IPv6 traffic currently which is rather large compared to other known statistics.
We promote IPv6 by offering it standard with all our (virtual)servers; in addition our customers can use IPv6 traffic for free for the whole of 2010!

In what way do you expect to see IPv6 growth in the next couple of years for Oxilion?

As mentioned we focus on IPv6 by installing IPv6 by default on new servers. And at the moment we are integrating the support on our existing products. At the end of 2010 we want to have it as ‘commonly’ used as IPv4 now.
We actively ask our biggest customers to embrace IPv6. We believe that we are the chicken in the chicken-and-the-egg. Or was it the egg?

Are there any things you would like to say about IPv6 in general?

First of all: use it! With the fast decrease of freely available IPv4 space at the moment we need to act now to avoid running out of IP’s.
We actively monitor IPv4 space by plotting the statistics on our large LCD screen at our NOC. We use IPv6 at our office and are using Google IPv6 services which they allowed us to do by changing their nameservers for us.

IPv6 is hot and IPv4 is not!

Thanks for your answers Wouter. Perhaps Oxilion should change their slogan to: Oxilion IPv6 obvious!