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Speedtest.net and IPv6

Jasper Wonnink — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:06:00 +0000

You probably have tested your Internet connections speed in the past. One of the biggest test sites is Speedtest.net. But did you know that if you have an IPv6 capable Internet connection and you pick the right mirror you can test the speed using IPv6? Totaalnet has IPv6 enabled on their Speedtest.net mirror and you [...]

RIPE NCC IPv6 for LIRs Training Course

Jasper Wonnink — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:39:01 +0000

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 [...]

Google finally indexing the IPv6 internet

Jasper Wonnink — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:28:01 +0000

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 [...]

Suggest IPv6 for Google mail

Jasper Wonnink — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:08:02 +0000

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

Free IPv4 and IPv6 DNS hosting

Jasper Wonnink — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:04:58 +0000

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

IPv6 professionals are migrating even without employer support

Jasper Wonnink — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:37:59 +0000

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 [...]

Weekend Project: Transition to IPv6

Jasper Wonnink — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:23:44 +0000

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

Study Looks at the Amount of Spam Over IPv6

External — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:27:00 +0000

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.

IPv6 hosters report for enlisting

Jasper Wonnink — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:20:46 +0000

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 [...]

Yahoo proposes ‘really ugly hack’ to DNS

External — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:45:25 +0000

Network engineers from Yahoo are pitching what they admit is a "really ugly hack" to the Internet's Domain Name System, but they say it is necessary for the popular Web content provider to support IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld and CIO.