A reader contacted me asking more details about the IPv6 hit I received from Web Africa on World IPv6 Day, and that prompted me to take a closer look. Actually that request, as well as the one that I thought was from MWEB, were both from hosts on their networks connecting via tunnels (6to4 for [...]
Also tagged MWeb, Web AfricaIn a comment to my previous post, Adrian pointed out that localloop.co.za’s DNS is not IPv6-ready, so I hereby officially eat my words. It was, however, a successful experiment. A few things I learned: I actually got some IPv6 visitors! I was not expecting any, never mind South Africans coming from ISP-routed blocks, so this [...]
Also taggedTomorrow is World IPv6 Day. The big deal (apparently) is that some providers will be temporarily running IPv6 in parallel to their IPv4 services. The protocol has been around for 15 years, and now they’re have a whole “world day” to turn it on, and then they’ll turn it off again. Cowards. For tomorrow, I [...]
Also taggedOne 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 [...]
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