www.andyd.net is now IPv6 enabled! To coincide with the Internet Society’s “World IPv6 Day“, this website has IPv6 as well as IPv4 connectivity.
However, unlike many of the participants, I will be leaving the v6 support on after midnight. Other participants, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and scores more who have turned on IPv6 support today, are expected to disable it again at midnight tonight, and then paw through the pages of statistics they have collected during the course of the day. It is hoped that the statistics will prove IPv6 is safe, and the experiment can be repeated – perhaps with permanent adoption next time.
IPv6 is essential to the growth of the internet. The old method of assigning addresses – IPv4 – permitted for up to around four billion hosts on the internet. This is not enough to assign an IP address to everyone who wants to use the internet, so a larger address pool (known as IPv6) was created. To maximise the audience for your website, it is important to today serve the site via IPv4 and IPv6. Many web hosts have enabled IPv6 today, ask yours for their IPv6 status. If they have not enabled IPv6, explain that you will move your business if they do not enable IPv6.
I work for Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6 backbone, with over 1,500 connections to other IPv6 networks. We offer IPv6 hosting, and connectivity to many thousands of IPv4 and IPv6 networks. We also offer IPv6 consultancy and professional services – so if you are looking for training, advice, or some hands on help completing your IPv6 migration, then why not get in touch with me? If you are looking for a free method to get some v6 consultancy for your office or lab, then consider our Tunnelbroker service, which lets you tunnel IPv6 over your existing IPv4 connection.