One week ago today (6 June 2012), the Internet Society (ISOC) led the charge on a voluntary initiative called World IPv6 Launch. Participating in this event were: five home router vendors, 77 Internet Service Providers, and 3,013 websites. By signing up as a website or ISP, you were committing to enabling IPv6 on your network […]
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Well, it is now roughly four months until the U.S. Federal Government is supposed to have its publicly-facing network services enabled for IPv6 by 30 September 2012 according to the White House directive in 2010. More specifically: Upgrade public/external facing servers and services (e.g. web, email, DNS, ISP services, etc) to operationally use native IPv6
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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 found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36329
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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 includes a dashboard that indicates each organizations status of IPv6 reachable and
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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 and IPv6 security fields love to
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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) feel about adding IPsec to their IPv6 stack. The
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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 laptop that would work
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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 adoption rates are still very low. However (as seen below), the amount of
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Tomorrow, at 8:00 pm (12:00 am GMT), World IPv6 Day begins. Here’s what to expect: All of your favorite websites should still be accessible (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc) If you are so inclined to sniff your traffic you should see a huge explosion of IPv6 on your network. If you don’t see this, then maybe
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Are you ready for IPv6 yet? Well, the rest of the world is having a large distributed test event called World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011. This is the day Google, Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft, Yahoo, Bing, Verizon, and others let loose on IPv6. For 24 hours, these participating sites and companies will have both
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