One of the weird ironies about this blog has been that although it is focused on networking in South Africa, the web server hosting it for the last ~two years was a Linode.com virtual machine in New Jersey, USA. The server’s IPv6 connectivity was via tunnel to HE.net in New York.
Now, thanks to the generosity of my friends at IPINX, this blog is hosted in Midrand, Gauteng and it has native IPv6. I would guess this is probably one of the few web servers in South Africa with native v6 outside of AS2018.
I took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest WordPress. If you spot anything thats broken, please let me know.
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Good to hear! Do you know of any local v6 peering going on in ZA?
Hi Aragon
Yes, I do.
AS2018 peers IPv6 with AS6083 and AS37105 (the localloop.co.za host) at JINX.
See this link:
http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za
Note that of the big ISP players, only Telkom, MTN Business and IS are announcing their IPv6 blocks on the Internet. I would assume they have IPv6 peering among them, but I don’t have a local peering matrix for either IPv4 or IPv6 networks (that would be incredibly useful though).
Regards,
Simeon.
And soon to come will be some more shiny stuff… ;)
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