Free IPv4 and IPv6 DNS hosting
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.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.
Peering Disputes Migrate to IPv6
Disputes over peering, which have quickly made the jump from IPv4 to IPv6.
Complaints of a “broken IPv6 Internet†emerged last week on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, which surfaced a peering issue involving IPv6 connections between Hurricane Electric and Cogent Communications.
While Hurricane Electric pointed the finger at Cogent, it has also extended an olive branch. Leber’s NANOG post commented that “we stop short of baking cakes†to encourage peering. But at this week’s NANOG 47 meeting in Dearborn, Mich., Hurricane Electric presented a cake inscribed with an invitation to Cogent to peer with HE over IPv6.
Hurricane Electric Network Expansion & IPv6 Deployment Growth
* Hurricane Electric has expanded to Tokyo, Stockholm, and Zurich
Hurricane Electric now connects over 500 IPv6 networks and announces over
1000 IPv6 customer prefixes.
Hurricane Electric has over 4500 BGP sessions with over 1100 IPv4 and
IPv6 networks at 29 different exchange points in North America, Europe,
and Asia.
Updated network map:
http://he.net/Hurricane_Electric_Geographic_Network_Map.jpg
* New tunnel servers live in Tokyo, Stockholm, and Zurich
You are welcome to log in and reconfigure your tunnel if you like.
Chosing a closer tunnel server will improve your performance. You will
receive a different /64 and /48 if you chose to do this.
* IPv6 Deployment Growth
The global IPv6 routing table has passed 2000 IPv6 prefixes.
There are now over 1500 IPv6 glue records in the TLD zone files. The
addition of IPv6 glue records at the TLD level is a good gauge of
hosting infrastructure IPv6 growth, since it indicates operational
commitment on the part of individual nameserver operators.
Source: http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi
* New Exchange Point Connections
We have added exchange point connections to Equinix Tokyo, NETNOD,
SOLIX, and Equinix Zurich.
Where ever possible, we prefer native IPv6 BGP sessions with your
network directly on our core routers at any facilities we have in common
or via any exchange points we might have in common.
