• www.google.com has IPv6 at ipv6.google.com
• www.facebook.com has IPv6 at www.v6.facebook.com

However, on world IPv6 day the well-known names will have IPv6 and IPv4 (commonly referred to as dual-stacking) for 24 hours. The goal of this test is to motivate internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies to prepare their services for IPv6. This is critical to ensure a successful transition from IPv4.

Roller Network already provides dual-stack IPv6 services for our websites and all major services. Every day is IPv6 day for us, and our customers can rest assured that our service is standard production quality and not a “beta” or “test”. We’ve carefully selected upstream providers that can provide dual-stack IPv6, so we’re proud to say that Roller Network has a fully dual-stack native network – from border to core and core to edge. All of our customers from free Secondary DNS to colocation, hosting and wireless internet have IPv6 capabilities. For more information see the ISOC World IPv6 Day page.

Here’s a handful of test sites (in no particular order) you can use to test your IPv6 readiness:

• http://test-ipv6.com/
• http://ipv6eyechart.ripe.net/
• http://s.a.ak6i.net/a1/results/demo.html

Roller Network's test results from our office.

Roller Network offers native IPv6 services from our facility in Reno, Nevada. If you’re interested in a dedicated server, colocaiton, or mail hosting with IPv6 on a fully native network (no tunnels) we’re the place to be.

The Roller Network Public NTP servers are:

• ntp6a.rollernet.us
• ntp6b.rollernet.us

These servers are physically located in Reno, Nevada, United States. By using these servers you agree to configure your NTP client according to the Open Access Time Server Guidelines.

With our low latency IPv6 native network core and IPv6 native dual-stacked transit providers, Roller Network can provide IPv6 connectivity at the same quality of service as IPv4 – there are no tunnels of any kind in our network. If you find this service useful please consider supporting Roller Network by using any of our paid-for services.

Disclaimers: This is a public service with no warranty and no guarantees. All forms of known and unknown abuse are prohibited. We reserve the right to define abuse at our discretion. Do not use “burst”. Do not configure using IP addresses. Do not hardcode our DNS names or IP addresses. No IPv4 access. We simply ask everyone to respect the service so we can continue to offer it.

Dear APNIC community

We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC
pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three
of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage
Three, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages

Last /8 address policy
———————-

IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in “Policies
for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region”:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10

APNIC’s objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space
for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq

>From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled
to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address
space.

For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8
policy, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/criteria

Act NOW on IPv6
—————

We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6
within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information
regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional
policies at:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv6

To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit:

http://www.apnic.net/kickstart

_______________________________________________________________________

APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net
Asia Pacific NetworkInformation Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
_______________________________________________________________________
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Today though a question about IPv6 enabled dynamic DNS services came up on the ipv6-ops list, so we went ahead and finished it up for public consumption. It’s still business as usual for everyone using it for IPv4 dynamic DNS, but now there’s an IPv6 option. See the documentation for details. We have not added an AAAA record to acc.rollernet.us, so while there is auto-detect code for IPv6 clients in our Dynamic DNS client, there’s no way to take advantage of it just yet.

If anyone actually uses it for its IPv6 support we’d be interested in your feedback.

A few hours later we discovered that the RIPE website was unreachable. Although the traceroute out indicated it was leaving our network via Sprint, we suspected the return traffic was trying to reach us via Global Crossing. After withdrawing our route announcements to GC we were able to reach RIPE and the customer who origionally brought the issue to our attention.

As this time we are waiting for a resolution on our trouble ticket with Global Crossing regarding this issue.

UPDATE [2011-03-06]: Global Crossing acknowledges that some recent MPLS changes in their network had caused our IPv6 to be null routed. They reverted the most recent changes and connectivity was restored. We will continue to monitor the situation.

102/8   AfriNIC    2011-02    whois.afrinic.net ALLOCATED
103/8   APNIC      2011-02    whois.apnic.net   ALLOCATED
104/8   ARIN       2011-02    whois.arin.net    ALLOCATED
179/8   LACNIC     2011-02    whois.lacnic.net  ALLOCATED
185/8   RIPE NCC   2011-02    whois.ripe.net    ALLOCATED

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, which triggered a global policy to allocate the remaining IANA pool equally between the five RIRs. Today IANA allocated those blocks. This means that there are no longer any IPv4 addresses available for allocation from the IANA to the five RIRs.

To read the full text of this announcement from the NRO, go to: http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted

UPDATE: Significant Announcement 3 February – Watch it live!

Dear Colleagues

The information in this announcement is to enable the Internet
community to update network configurations, such as routing filters,
where required.

APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in February
2011 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near
future:

39/8
106/8

Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence
soon. The daily report will be published at the usual URL:

http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon

Please be aware, this will be the final allocation made by IANA under
the current framework and will trigger the final distribution of five
/8 blocks, one to each RIR under the agreed “Global policy for the
allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space”.

http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm

After these final allocations, each RIR will continue to make
allocations according to their own established policies.

APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six
months. After this time, APNIC will continue to make small allocations
from the last /8 block, guided by section 9.10 in “Policies for IPv4
address space management in the Asia Pacific region”. This policy
ensures that IPv4 address space is available for IPv6 transition.

http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy

It is expected that these allocations will continue for at least
another five years.

APNIC reiterates that IPv6 is the only means available for the
sustained ongoing growth of the Internet, and urges all members of the
Internet industry to move quickly towards its deployment.

Kind regards,

_______________________________________________________________________

APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
_______________________________________________________________________

Have you thought about your IPv6 plans? Roller Network offers a full suite of IPv6 enabled services with 100% native transit, from internet access to hosting or colocation and everything between.

The installation was over fixed wireless with a MikroTik RB750 (running 5.0b7 firmware) at the customer site. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are available natively (dual stack).