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6to4 Relay Activated

Roller Network — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:25:02 +0000

Roller Network has activated a 6to4 relay on one of our border routers.

We have several customers using 6to4 addresses, so instead of relying on public relays for this traffic we will now originate it ourselves. Scanning through the logs and performing a traceroute/ping on several of them revealed working connectivity, but in the event of any trouble with 6to4 addresses, please report it to us.

Global Crossing IPv6 In Service

Roller Network — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:19:18 +0000

We are pleased to announce that our native IPv6 connection to Global Crossing is now officially in service. It’s actually been in service since June, but there were a few changes that had to be made before we could make it official.

DNS Exit Breaks IPv6

Roller Network — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:50:13 +0000

We were troubleshooting DNS for a customer who has the domains hosted over at DNS Exit over the last couple of days and couldn’t seem to nail down why we here at Rollernet couldn’t resolve their DNS reliably, if at all. After much extended testing, we eventually tested from a site that was IPv4 only and discovered this:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dnsexit.com.        28800   IN      A       69.57.160.118
ns1.dnsexit.com.        28800   IN      AAAA    ::1
ns2.dnsexit.com.        59400   IN      A       64.182.102.188
ns2.dnsexit.com.        59400   IN      AAAA    ::1
ns3.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      A       67.214.175.73
ns3.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      AAAA    ::1
ns4.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      A       67.214.161.154
ns4.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      AAAA    ::1

There’s the problem: delegations to the IPv6 loopback address. This is not something we would ever expect to see. It can, in fact, be damaging because an IPv6 resolver may try to query itself (localhost). As such, we are strongly recommending to all of our customers (plus anyone in general who is interested in working with IPv6 or may use an IPv6 network) to stay clear of DNS Exit at this time.

We try not to recommend one provider over another, but in this instance the localhost AAAA delegations are too egregious of an error to ignore. As far as we are aware only DNS Exit does this, so any of their competitors should be a suitable replacement.

IANA IPv4 Free Pool is Now at 6.25%

Roller Network — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:31:58 +0000

From the ARIN-announce mailing list:

ARIN has been allocating IPv6 addresses since 1999 and has been actively advocating the need to deploy IPv6. In 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees resolved to educate and inform the Internet community regarding IPv4 depletion and the increasing need to adopt IPv6. This resolution became part of a larger IPv6 outreach campaign to encourage those currently running IPv4 to begin adopting IPv6. In April of 2009, ARIN contacted, by certified letter, the CEOs of organizations that currently hold IPv4 resources in its region to raise executive awareness of IPv4 depletion and IPv6 adoption. To keep up with ARIN’s current outreach activities and locations, please visit http://www.teamARIN.net/calendar.

Without IPv6, the Internet’s expansion and innovation could be limited. Delaying IPv6 deployment may strain the work of Internet operators, application developers, and end users everywhere. Furthermore, organizations whose business model is dependent on availability of IP addresses may find their growth limited without adopting production IPv6.

There are many ways to make your organization’s services available using IPv6, depending on your network setup and the services you have deployed. ARIN hosts an IPv6 Wiki to facilitate discussion and information sharing on IPv6 adoption topics and issues, which can be found at http://www.getipv6.info. If you have not already, now is the time to determine how your services will grow and be maintained using IPv6 addresses.

Regards,

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

Roller Network offers standard IPv6 enabled colocation and hosting services for the next generation internet, today. If your provider does not support IPv6, consider switching to one that does.

The End of the Verizon Story

Roller Network — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:54:20 +0000

If you’ve been following our Verizon story, you know by now that we’ve been trying to get them to turn up a dual-stack circuit for over a year now. Last year on June 7, 2009, we signed an agreement for Verizon to deliver fiber to our premises. This allows us to offer our customers a facility with diverse fiber entrances and diverse physical carriers. Our colocation customers can also order circuits directly to our muxes (AT&T or VZB) if they choose. Although the equipment was installed a few months later, it’s been stuck in some sort of engineering delay for an abnormally long time. As we can’t wait forever, we have to file it away as a lost cause at this point.

But all is not lost in the end. The Verizon fiber facilities are still installed, fully functional, (we left the order open in the hope that one day it would be delivered) and Global Crossing is able to utilize it for their local loop to us. It’s been a long and ugly ride, from denial, through anger, and finally acceptance of the situation. It’s caused us delays beyond our control and cost far too much money from being forced on standby since the move in October 2009. But we’re still here and we look forward to the future.

We will be announcing some promotions and referral programs in the near future so stay tuned!

New: Secondary DNS Multi-Zone Settings

Roller Network — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:03:10 +0000

We have just released a multi-zone settings tool to our Secondary DNS service. This allows settings such as master, second master, and AXFR/NOTIFY settings to be applied to multiple (or all) Secondary DNS zones without having to update each zone individually. Zone file maintenance actions (delete and retransfer) must still be performed individually.

Secondary DNS Multi-Zone Settings

This new feature is available on accounts with Personal Plus or higher.

Full Release of New Outbound Mail Features

Roller Network — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:59:56 +0000

As we mentioned last week there was a bug preventing us from releasing one of the new features for Outbound Mail. All of the accounts affected by this bug have been contacted and fixed, so we can proceed with the full release on May 22 as promised.

Outbound Mail accounts now feature all of these options:

Mail mirroring support for Outbound accounts
Mail forwarding (BCC) for Outbound accounts
IPv6 access filter to compliment the existing IPv4 filter
Option to send 5xx response for common DNS errors instead of 4xx

New: Secondary DNS “Second Master”

Roller Network — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:36:18 +0000

We’ve added an option to specify an optional second master DNS server for zones in our Secondary DNS service. Unlike the first master, only an IPv4 or IPv6 address is accepted for the second master. This can be useful if you want to specify a redundant master server or dual stack IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity for the same master.

New Outbound Mail Features

Roller Network — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:57:05 +0000

As we mentioned earlier, there are several new new features for our Outbound Mail service pending imminent release. We’re pleased to announce the release of the following:

Mail mirroring support for Outbound accounts
Mail forwarding (BCC) for Outbound accounts
IPv6 access filter to compliment the existing IPv4 filter

Due to a last minute bug, the following feature will be delayed until May 22:

Option to send 5xx response for common DNS errors instead of 4xx

For more information on the bug that was discovered, please read post Bug in “Mail Server” Type Outbound Accounts. The IP and DNS related changes would cause these accounts to reject submissions due to missing parameters, so we decided to delay this feature until those affected could be notified.

Mail Forwarding IPv6 Enabled

Roller Network — Sun, 09 May 2010 01:44:22 +0000

As part of our ever expanding quest to fully IPv6 enable our services, the new IPv6 enabled mail forwarding servers are now online. If a forwarding destination is reachable via IPv6, we’ll try it.

We’re getting close to tackling the big one: IPv6 enabled incoming mail. Stay tuned!