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Whilst we already have enough IPv4 address space for our current network needs, as part of ongoing network upgrades, we have been looking at making our network ready for IPv6 connectivity. There are many factors which need to be worked through to ensure a seamless experience for our customers but we anticipate we will progress with initial stages of IPv6 deployment at some point during 2012.
Thanks
Will we all be ok on World IPv6 day June 8th, 2011?
The only reason I ask is I cant load these sites:
Thanks,
David
- Anonymous15 years agoipv6 day will not be ipv6 only its a dual stack test.
i can access them :P get a tunnel from he.net- copsewood14 years agoJoining in
My he.net ip6 over ip4 tunnel works very well through my cable modem router. he.net can also allocate you a /64 in addition to the tunnel endpoint address. You can use the he.net DNS service to allocate forward and reverse DNS names to your ip6 addresses, and use the /64 to provide routes within your home network to all the other devices and computers. So I've been able to access ipv6 only services outside my network this way and also provide ipv6 servers globally visible over ipv6 running inside my home network.
- chrissw14 years agoOn our wavelength
Also using he.net IPV6 tunnel here, but I asked for, and got, a /48 prefix, so every VLAN here (there are several!) has a /64 allocated. On the face of it, that allows a ridiculously large number of IPV6 addresses for a home network, but then that's what IPV6 can do.
I don't use their DNS service since I was already using dyndns.com to provide resolution for my IPV4 servers, and they do support the use of AAAA records.
- fellfromatree15 years agoSettling in
beanie wrote:Will we all be ok on World IPv6 day June 8th, 2011?
The only reason I ask is I cant load these sites:
Thanks,
DavidHey David,
You should be fine. The reason you can't access those sites, is that you need to have a v6 address before you can view a v6 website. The big players are running a dual-stack network, which basically means that they run both v4 and v6 websites at the same time. Your browser is then directed to the correct version of the site.
I think that the idea behind IPv6 day, is that many sites are switching their v6 service on for the first time, or running a full v6 service for the first time. It doesn't mean that the v4 site will disappear completely.
HTH,
Paul
- VMCopperUser15 years agoWise owl
It's likely that ALL sites out there today will still be reachable in 10+ years using IPv4..
Virgin Media will have more than enough ipv4 Addys to give out to customers until they go bankrupt and nationalized...
The issue (as is, and as will be, that VM will not talk about) is new startups that are ipv6 Only.. Lets not forget that startups such as Myspace, Youtube, and LOTS of broadcasting sites are fairly new.
The ISP doesnt care right now because customers aren't impacted. Sadly (with VM) this means that they will probably migrate when half the userbase is ticked off because they cant reach some new fangled site that's in Alexa's top 10..
Then they'll start doing catch-up and tell us how hard they are working for us ;P...
The equipment VM has listed before shows that their headend should be ipv6 compliant, most of the modems and routers they provide are compliant (with patches), so if VM says they are not ready, then it means that their core fibre network must not be ready :/...
Spooky thought that.
- Anonymous14 years ago
VMCopperUser wrote:It's likely that ALL sites out there today will still be reachable in 10+ years using IPv4..
Virgin Media will have more than enough ipv4 Addys to give out to customers until they go bankrupt and nationalized...
The issue (as is, and as will be, that VM will not talk about) is new startups that are ipv6 Only.. Lets not forget that startups such as Myspace, Youtube, and LOTS of broadcasting sites are fairly new.
The ISP doesnt care right now because customers aren't impacted. Sadly (with VM) this means that they will probably migrate when half the userbase is ticked off because they cant reach some new fangled site that's in Alexa's top 10..
Then they'll start doing catch-up and tell us how hard they are working for us ;P...
The equipment VM has listed before shows that their headend should be ipv6 compliant, most of the modems and routers they provide are compliant (with patches), so if VM says they are not ready, then it means that their core fibre network must not be ready :/...
Spooky thought that.
Call me cynical but I can't see any site that's IPv6 only getting into Alexa's top 10 any time soon given how small a fraction of all ISPs worldwide have IPv6 support currently or imminently.
About 60% claim they'll have it ready for consumers this year however this isn't 60% by customer numbers and that's the rub, the really big guys in the consumer space aren't moving as quickly.
- TonyJr5 years agoUp to speed
melamandi wrote:did you manage to get this fixed?
I tried several times using below but would not work...https://www.melamandi.com/
Not yet. I am going to re-test after 29/10 as there are code updates to some of the CBRs due then, although that may be for a different reason... reading further into some of the recent fixes released into the code, it may have something to do with IPv6. Hmmm I wonder.
- James_G15 years agoForum Team (Retired)
Hi beanie,
Could you please let us know if the information provided by fellfromatree helped with your query?
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