Latest IPv6 News

• IP6Check.com Finally IPv6 Ready!

  august 27, 2011

  At long last IP6Check.com is officially IPv6 ready. Thanks to the folks at Hetzner.de for all their hard work in getting the IPv6 all setup!

• What Did IPv6 Day Teach Us?

  june 26, 2011

  So how was it for you? Last Wednesday's IPv6 Day passed without incident for the vast majority of enterprise users, and a week later the Internet seems unchanged. That should be the mark of a successful test, but some network operators suspect that upgrading to IPv6 for real won't go so smoothly.
  
  "It was kind of a transient event," Amar Khan, VP of IP Services at infrastructure provider Internap, said in an interview. Internap accounts for a major portion of the IPv6 Internet, with more than 1 in 100 of total IPv6 routes passing through its network. These showed a huge spike in traffic, with the number of IPv6 packets traversing its network jumping more than 25-fold on IPv6 day. But the rise was only temporary, and perhaps only possible because IPv6 was starting from such a low base. "Even on that day, the percentage of Internet traffic that was IPv6 was immaterial," he said. "And once the day was over, we saw it revert back to normal levels."

  Read the full story at Information Week

• IP6check.com Now Better Than Ever!

  april 19, 2011

  A few recent changes have been made to the ip6check.com backend:
  

  
  
  • All domains are now validated before being certified IPv6 ready. We do this by pinging the IPv6 address of the domain.
  
  
  • The site should now run faster than before
  
  
  • Results are now only cached for 5mins. This should help if you are doing trouble shooting on your domain.
  
  

• Why You Shouldn't Worry About Switching to IPv6 Now

  april 18, 2011

  A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That's not necessarily the case, though, especially for a consumer or a small business.
  
  Since the late 1970s, Internet Protocol version 4 has been the standard address system for identifying and locating computers, routers, and other hardware on the Internet. But as of February, all 4 billion addresses that IPv4 provides have been given out. To fix the problem, a second protocol, IPv6, debuted a few years back, though adoption is not yet widespread.
  
  IPv4 is the original network protocol, initially designed to connect university and government mainframes. Since the number of connected systems has skyrocketed from merely dozens back in the 1970s to billions today, the original protocol had to be reworked to handle more systems than the 4 billion it provided for. IPv6 can support 2128 addresses, or about 3.4x1038 (3,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) devices.
  
  Now that IPv4 addresses are all assigned, the pressure on many organizations to move to IPv6 is growing steadily. Small companies might worry about what the switch will require--but fortunately for most people, it is a good ways off, and it won't be a big deal even when it happens.

  Read the full story at PC World

• No more addresses: Asia-Pacific region IPv4 well runs dry

  april 18, 2011

  The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), which is the organization responsible for distributing IP addresses in most of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific, announced that on April 15, it reached its final /8 block of IPv4 addresses. This cryptic announcement means that APNIC's supply of IPv4 addresses has been exhausted, and since the global pool of IPv4 addresses was previously exhausted, IPv4 addresses are no longer available in the APNIC region as they were before—basically, "to each according to his needs."

  Read the full story at ars technica

• IPv6: Don't believe the scare stories

  march 08, 2011

  If you believe the hype around the decline of IPv4 available website addresses, you may well fear that time is running out and that soon the internet will implode under the pressure. Similar to the frenzy around the supposed Y2K bug, I'm afraid this just isn't going to happen.
  
  The truth is that nothing will really change on the surface; IPv6 will gradually be introduced and for the next few years both IPv4 and IPv6 will coexist. The IT industry has known about the move from IPv4 to IPv6 for a long time now and manufacturers have been producing IPv6-ready hardware and software for many years.

  Read the full story at Computer World UK

• Verizon: We have plenty of IPv4 addresses

  march 08, 2011

  Verizon Business says it has enough IP addresses using the current version of the Internet Protocol, known as IPv4, to support its U.S. business and government customers as they transition to the next-generation standard, IPv6.
  
  "We're not running out of IPv4 addresses anytime soon," assures Jason Schiller, senior Internet network engineer with Verizon Business. "But we still think it's important to deploy dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6. We want to get a lot of IPv6 out there before the first organization is forced to go all IPv6."
  
  Verizon won't say how many IPv4 addresses it has left, claiming that this information is "proprietary."

  Read the full story at networkworld.com

• What to do on World IPv6 Day? Don’t touch anything!

  february 10, 2011

  Website owners have been warned not to try switching their sites to IPv6 on World IPv6 Day, 8 June, unless they know for sure their ISP or hosting providers have already moved to the new domain name system.
  
  Even though the world is running out of IP addresses as IPv4 reaches its known limit, many wonder are we staring into the abyss? Is this the end of the web as we know it and must we not all rush headlong towards IPv6?

  Read the full story at SiliconRepublic