You've probably seen our mission statement: "Promoting the adoption of IPv6 for the preservation of an open Internet." Mission statements seem to be a dime a dozen these days, so let's look at just how important this work really is.
At the All Things Open conference last year, one of …
At work today, I helped someone use ping6 to figure out what to fix on a server that wasn't reachable over IPv6. I have a pretty basic formula that I thought I would share.
I will use this information for the problem host:
nethope@fixme$ ip -6 address show
1 …I often hear comments like "Where do I start on IPv6?"; I have two answers.
Anyone can turn on IPv6 at home, and then go through the free IPv6 Certification at Hurricane Electric (HE). First, find out if your ISP offers native IPv6. If you can get native IPv6, make …
As Vint Cerf said, "We need to stop running the experimental version of the Internet [IPv4], and move to the production version of the Internet running IPv6!" Do you need more reasons to use IPv6?
Addresses everywhere for everything, without scarcity
The number of Internet-connected devices is growing, and has …
What's wrong with NAT?
NAT is often proposed as a supposedly-viable alternative to IPv6 deployment. NAT was an attempt to mitigate IPv4 address depletion, to give us time to migrate to IPv6, but not to replace IPv6. As the number of devices connected to the Internet grows, the Internet needs …
Back in June I participated in Turn off IPv4 Day as a show of solidarity. I had grand plans to write up a long post about the issues encountered throughout the day, but I had already done similar versions of this activity in the lab, so there weren't a whole …
The other day on IRC, the bot for one of the channels I frequent reconnected, and I noticed it was coming in over IPv4. I knew the host it was on is IPv6 capable, so I jokingly asked it "y u no ipv6?". The bot's owner told me "patches welcome …
Many of my recent posts have been about sites that have not yet enabled IPv6. For those of you who have done so: Good on ya! Now, do you monitor it?
I've been encountering an increasing number of web sites with AAAA records, but the addresses listed therein either do …
The response from Time Warner Cable every time I call to ask about IPv6 involves some variant on "We are not deploying IPv6 because we have enough IPv4 addresses." This response is wrong on at least three points that I would like to address here.
I am pleased to announce the IPv6 photo gallery is now live on our site. If you have received an IPv6 sticker at one of our presentations, or have some other interesting use of IPv6, please send us a picture! We'd love to feature it in the gallery.
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