News of 2002

This page contains the news items from the year of 2002.
2002 was the year where SixXS started and the provisioning system was set to use at IPng.
The PoPs started this year where:

• demun01 - PSINet Europe (formerly Cybernet AG)
• iedub01 - HeaNet
• nlams01 - Concepts
• nlams02 - IPng
• nlams03 - AMS-IX

AIAD was this year and we introduced Ghost Route Hunter.

Wednesday, October 23rd - SixXS opens it's doors to the public

The SixXS project will be launched to the public. Users of IPng (nlams02) will be able to manage their tunnels (/127) and subnets (/60), using the new provisioning system using a web-interface. Concepts (nlams01) opened up their PoP for the public, users can now also request tunnels (/64) and subnets (/48) to their PoP.

Wednesday, October 23rd - AMS-IX IPv6 Awareness Day

Today is the AMS-IX IPv6 Awareness Day, SixXS will be presented there and taken in to action by the visitors. They will start using the AMS-IX PoP. Allowing a quick peek into the future and a step into the world of IPv6 for many ISP's connected to the AMS-IX.

Wednesday, November 6th - Multiple Power Failures in Amsterdam

Due to a big power failure in Amsterdam, two out of four AMS-IX locations had a brownout along with 80% of Amsterdam. Also NIKHEF was affected where IPng is housed. The power has stabilized again and everything is running smoothly. noc.sixxs.net is located in Breda so it wasn't directly affected by this problem.

Saturday, November 9th - PSINet Europe's PoP, demun01 airs

demun01, a PoP hosted by PSINet Europe in Muenchen, Germany has been added to the public PoP's. It's from now on open for requests from the Tunnel Request menu serving out /64 tunnels and /48 subnets on request. This PoP was called Cybernet AG until PSINet Europe acquired them.

Wednesday, November 13th - Reverses changed to sixxs.net

Finalizing the IPng migration, reverses for the public PoPs are now in the form of:
  gw-[number].[pop].[tld].sixxs.net
  cl-[number].[pop].[tld].sixxs.net
gw (gateway) is the SixXS PoP side of the tunnel which will be seen on outgoing traceroutes, cl (client), is the endusers side of the tunnel as will be seen on incoming traceroutes. Examples:
  cl-42.ams-03.nl.sixxs.net
  cl-512.mun-01.de.sixxs.net
Getting a 'personalized' reverse for a tunnel endpoint is not possible.

Friday, November 15th - PoPs section renewed

The Points of Presence section now contains a map depicting the physical locations of the PoPs provisioned by the SixXS system.

Sunday, December 1st - Ghost Route Hunter

SixXS is proud to present a tool for detecting Ghost Routes in the IPv6 routing table. This tool is named Ghost Route Hunter and can be found in our Misc section.

Wednesday, December 11th - Ghost Route Hunter - IPv6 DFP availability

The extended version of GRH now also shows the availability of DFP's
This way we can follow which DFP's are actually assigned and being announced.