As everyone knows, today is IPv6 Launch Day, where we (the internet) are supposed to turn on (and leave on) IPv6. It saddens me that I am unable to participate in this launch day by turning on IPv6… because We’ve been natively v6 accessible since June 2011. Even before that, Snowulf & company were accessible [...]
Archive of posts filed under the IPv6 category.
IPv6, Linode & Stats
Yesterday, I talked about some of the work I did in the weekend server overhaul. One of those tasks I wanted to talk about a little more was the addition of native IPv6 because I feel very strongly that IPv6 is important, not just to this blog, but to the future of the internet. I’m [...]
Weekend Server Overhaul
In early 2010 I signed up and migrated to Linode.com for my server needs. At that point in time, the latest version of Ubuntu that was offered was 9.10; the only useful colo location was Dallas; and IPv6 was unheard of (well, not exactly unheard of, but having a server with IPv6 was). We’ve had [...]
Goodbye AT&T, Hello Sonic.net
The alternate title for this post is “Internet usage caps can kiss my ass” because that’s what prompted this post, but first a little backstory. Many people have had issues with big teleco (and specifically AT&T) provided internet and would assume that I loathe them for the same reasons, but I do not. I’ve had [...]
IPv6: Backwater hick to bleeding edge – in a weekend?!
So last week, I didn’t know a whole lot about IPv6 (backwater hick – slow and behind the times). After spending a long weekend delving into the world of it, I find out that I’m basically on the bleeding edge already… and that makes me sad. How can I go from not even having used [...]
IPv6: Getting functional DHCPv6 and Route Advertising together
If you’re not into IPv6, but you’re a networking person – you may want to avert you eyes. This next piece of information is going to cause you pain: DHCPv6 does not support/allow you to send default gateway. This is “by design”. Does your brain hurt yet? I know mine did when I first found [...]
Getting underway with IPv6
So let me start off by saying, I’m not new to the world of networking. I’ve been doing this for a long while now. I had a Linux box running as a router on a PPPoE DSL line back before you could even buy a home “router” (IE Linksys). Heck, I had the network running [...]
OH SHIT OH SHIT. THE INTERNET IS RUNNING OUT!!!!shift+1
The other day I stopped by CNN.com to find a sub-headline of “We’re running out of internet addresses” catching my eye. These articles always amuse me so I clicked through and read “Are you ready for the big internet crunch?“. What fear mongering are they up to today? A lot, apparently, since the first line [...]
IPv6 is big.
Well I was looking up information about IPv6 today, and wikipedia as usual had a very intresting article about IPv6. Here’s an intresting quote: “while IPv6 supports about 3.4 × 1038 (340 undecillion) addresses — about 4.3 × 1020 (430 quintillion) addresses per square inch (6.7 × 1017 (670 quadrillion) addresses/mm²) of the Earth’s surface.”. [...]
