Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to discuss TunnelBroker.net. What’s TunnelBroker.net? It’s a free service from Hurricane Electric that lets you connect to the IPv6 Internet across an IPv4-only connection. Want to get started with IPv6? This is a great way to go
Comcast Residential IPv6 NO-NAT Pilot
Comcast has been conducting IPv6 technical trials in our production network for more than a year, and we’ve been working diligently on IPv6 deployment for over 6 years. After so many years of challenging preparatory work, significant technology investment, internal skills development, and close collaboration with our technology partners, I am incredibly pleased to announce that we’ve achieved another critical milestone in our transition to IPv6 — we have started the pilot market deployment of IPv6 to customers in selected markets!
Multiple Source’s [ Jason Livingood | John Brzozowski | Mike Hughes ]
Most IT pros say their websites, networks will support IPv6 by 2013
IT administrators are nearly unanimous that a transition to IPv6 is important, and seven out of 10 say their companies will make the jump within the next two years, according to a Network World survey. But only 13% of respondents said they have completed IPv6 deployment on their websites and internal networks, and 16% said they know their hardware and software are compatible with the upgrade.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072611-ipv6-survey.html
Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey 2011
The Global IPv6 Deployment survey 2011 between 1/07/2011 – 31/07/2011. This survey is designed by GNKS Consult in collaboration with TNO and RIPE NCC, based on a design originally by ARIN/CAIDA in 2008, and has been carried out in 2009 with the support of RIPE NCC and APNIC, and globally, with support from RIPE NCC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and AfriNIC, in 2010. Over 1500 respondents indicated they would be willing to participate again, this year.
This year, RIPE NCC, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) and the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) will support this survey for the second time, which allows a comparison with last year’s survey results at global level.
The survey is secure and all data will be kept confidential by GNKS Consult and TNO researchers for analysis on IPv6 deployment by ISPs and other stakeholders in the RIR communities around the world, and only presented in summary form. The data will be made available for analysis to the RIRs as well under these same confidentiality clause. It will take only 15 minutes to fill in the survey.
Facebook and World IPv6 Day
Why It Matters to Facebook
World IPv6 Day will allow us to better understand how our infrastructure and code perform under IPv6 while minimizing impact on our users. Since January, we’ve conducted several studies and tests of our own and have gained even greater confidence that our site is ready for IPv6. We anticipate that 99.97% of users will not be affected at all. The small number of users who may be affected may find that pages are slow to load and we are working to minimize the impact.
Of course, we will be prepared to address any issues as they come up. Our Help Center has instructions and more information for users who may be affected.
We are encouraged by the overwhelming response of the hundreds of major organizations who have signed up to participate on World IPv6 Day.
World IPv6 Day starts in about 3 hours!
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.
Facebook, Google, Yahoo Join Forces To Fix The Internet’s Biggest Problem In Decades #ipv6
Imagine if the world ran out of phone numbers. Mobile providers could issue no more smartphones, businesses could create no new call centers, and the public would be left fighting over and recycling a diminishing amount of existing phone numbers. “That’s a similar situation that we’re in on the Internet,” says Facebook’s Donn Lee, pointing out that the Web’s billions of IP addresses are about to hit its max.
Lee is Facebook’s lead engineer on IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, the first new version of the Internet’s addressing system in decades, which will provide trillions and trillions more unique addresses on the Web. Every time you go online or print a document at work, you’re essentially dialing a unique number–called an IP address–to communicate with other devices and computer networks. It’s no different than visiting a friend: You might know the name of his apartment building, but you’ll need an address and zip code in order to locate it on a map. The Web works in the same way, but as the number of homes and businesses and devices connected to the Internet continues to increase exponentially, we’re rapidly running out of space online. And now it’s up to Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to fix the problem before it’s too late.
World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines.
In all likelihood, you won’t even notice the test. The vast majority (99.95%) of people will be able to access services without interruption: either they’ll connect over IPv6, or their systems will successfully fall back to IPv4. However, as with any next-generation technology, there may be teething pains. We estimate that .05% of systems may fail to fall back to IPv4, so some people may find Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing and other participating websites slow or unresponsive on World IPv6 Day. This is often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home networking equipment, such as home routers, that can make a computer think it has IPv6 connectivity when in fact it’s not working.
Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard with other industry players to prepare. Operating system vendors and browser manufacturers have been releasing updates to resolve IPv6 connectivity issues—for example, Google Chrome now incorporates workarounds for malfunctioning IPv6 networks—and we’ve seen router manufacturers test their devices for robust IPv6 support as well. For our part, we’ve been busy adding IPv6 support to services that didn’t yet have it, and fixing minor issues with those that did. And since the best way to find bugs in your services is to hammer on them yourself, Google employees have been operating in “World IPv6 Day mode” for several months now.
Source : [ Google Blog ]
New specialized training program at MyIPv6Tutor.com.
Brandon Carroll of GlobalConfig.net recently launched a new specialized training program at MyIPv6Tutor.com. He has developed the program specifically to help networkers who may not have the time to pour over books get up and running with IPv6.
Registration before May 15th is $197, and yields immediate access to the first two video lessons, with the other four becoming accessible on the 15th:
IPv6 features and benefits
IPv6 addressing
IPv6 headers
ICMPv6 – Why is this important?
Stateless and stateful autoconfiguration
A basic configuration of IPv6 on routers and desktop computers
The videos also come with downloadable MP3s and PDF transcripts. Brandon is an excellent trainer, and with World IPv6 Day less than a month away this is precisely the type of training some networkers need to finally make the push toward IPv6.
More informationhttp://myipv6tutor.com/
