Insights & Articles

Jeremy Duncan • April 28, 2012

Facebook is IPv6-enabled now - without a whitelist

UPDATE 22 May 2012 It looks as though Facebook is now 100% IPv6-enabled, without white-list filtering! See the dig below: The Updated Dig mylaptop:~$ dig @8.8.8.8 AAAA www.facebook.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 AAAA www.facebook.com ; (1 server…

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Jeremy Duncan • April 22, 2012

The Importance of DoD UC APL Certification Testing

We just posted a white paper on our website that discusses the various reasons why getting commercial IT products tested at the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) for DoD Unified Capabilities Requirements (UC) Approved Products List (APL) certification is very important.…

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Jeremy Duncan • February 6, 2012

Regional IPv6 Week

      6 - 12 February 2012, is Brazil's Regional IPv6 Week (#ipv6week). Similar to World IPv6 Day, but it is meant to focus on Latin America's support for websites to service providers. We ( Tachyon Dynamics ) are also a website participant (number 16) . The site…

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Jeremy Duncan • January 19, 2012

An IPv6 Flag Day - 6/6/2012?

World IPv6 Launch , as it is being called, is this year's Internet Society IPv6 initiative meant to provide more IPv6 content saturation on the Internet. Similar to World IPv6 Day last June, but with one very key difference: they will be IPv6-enabled permanently! That's right,…

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Jeremy Duncan • January 16, 2012

Joining the Internet Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA

We did not come to this decision lightly. As is the case with many websites, we make a living from visits to our website. We could lose prospective clients, but that is why this is so important. A few weeks ago, I wrote about why it is so important to fight against the current…

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Jeremy Duncan • January 7, 2012

IPv6 RA Guard Implementation Advice

Bravo to Fernando Gont for getting out a great Internet Draft (soon-to-be RFC) on the Implementation Advice on IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Guard . This has been one of the open, gaping wounds in the side of IPv6 enterprise deployment for years. In fact, many of us in the IPv6…

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Jeremy Duncan • December 22, 2011

Why SOPA and PROTECT-IP will kill the U.S. Internet: An Open Letter to Congress

I'm sure everyone has heard the headlines about the U.S. House of Representatives' bill HR-3261 Stop online Piracy Act and the Senate Bill equivalent; Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP). Well it's…

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Jeremy Duncan • December 4, 2011

IPv6 IPsec - Reviving the Debate

John Spence from Nephos6 had a great article discussing IPsec and its place in the newest draft of the IPv6 Node Requirements RFC . They offer a good opinion and perspective of the current state of the industry on IPv6 adoption, and how vendors (especially of small appliances)…

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Jeremy Duncan • November 1, 2011

Create a Dynamips/Dynagen lab with just a Laptop & a Switch

It's actually just as easy as that. If you are looking to create a fully functional router and/or server lab used for training classes or a configuration test lab, and looking to do it with the smallest footprint ever, then read on! The Laptop I started off trying to find a…

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Jeremy Duncan • July 23, 2011

World IPv6 Day, what did we really learn?

On 8 June 2011, over 400 organizations from around the world participated in a global IPv6 functionality test. The question is what did we learn? What did we gain? Simply put: the IPv6 "boogie monster" doesn't exist. IPv6 works, and works very well. client-side/residential…

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