News of 2008

This page contains the news items from the year of 2008.

Tuesday, January 1st - Happy new year

The SixXS staff whishes everybody a happy and fruitful 2008.

We directly have a great IPv6 announcement to make, relayed from ICANN:

On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it. A technical analysis of inserting IPv6 records into the root has been done by a joint working group of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee and Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a report of which can be found at http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac018.pdf, Network operators should take whatever steps they feel appropriate to prepare for the inclusion of AAAA records in response to root queries

This will most likely become the first IPv6 history point of 2008, hopefully more will follow.

Sunday, January 20th - IPv6 Glue for your domain

In about 3 weeks, the root-servers will have published IPv6 glue (AAAA) records. This is a huge step to be able to run fully IPv6-only, thus without having to depend on IPv4. Domains though then still need to have AAAA glue for their own DNS servers, and those of their TLD's. We have started compiling a list of registrars who can provide you with this service, and also the ones who don't.

Please see Which DNS Registrars allow me to add AAAA glue for my Domain Name Servers? Of course, if you have additions, don't hesitate to pass them on.

Tuesday, February 19th - IPv6Gate 2.5 - Multi-part POSTing resolved

Thanks to River from Wikimedia for notifying us to a bug which affected multi-part POSTs through the IPv6Gate. After a bit of a fight this problem has been resolved and the IPv6Gate should now be fully functioning with Wikipedia again. This thus allows everybody who has IPv6 to already access Wikipedia over IPv6 using our IPv6Gate.

Example Wikipedia direct access URL's:

• Wikipedia - English
• Wikipedia - Dutch
• Wikipedia - German
• Wikipedia - Chinese
• Wikipedia - Japanese

We would like to remember people to actually contact us in case of problems, as when we don't know about a problem, we can't look at it and possibily fix it.

Saturday, March 1st - SixXS & AICCU in the c't - magazin für computertechnik

Faithful readers of the paper-copy of the excellent German c't - magazin für computertechnik magazine will most likely already have noticed that on page 214-219 there is an IPv6 article ("Mit IPv6 ins Internet") which also, in about one page, partially covers SixXS and AICCU. It even has a screenshot of AICCU and even a part of the website in the magazine. For everybody who is able to read German, or when the English edition comes out with this article, check it out! AICCU is also featured in their Software Verzeichnis (Software Directory).

Wednesday, March 5th - More IPv6 Multicast Experiments

We have recently given quite some love to the experimental IPv6 Multicast support. Most European PoPs should now be able to receive the IPv6 Multicast groups that are being broadcasted on the m6bone. A IPv6 Multicast dbeacon is available to check the status of the Multicast cloud.

When one is reading about IPv6, don't forget to check up on the Google IPv6 Conference.

Monday, March 10th - SixXS does Düsseldorf, Germany with a new PoP from SpeedPartner GmbH

We proudly present a new German based PoP located in the city of Düsseldorf: dedus01.sixxs.net. This PoP is located in SpeedPartner GmbH's Datacenter and is from now on available for all German users, thus allowing these users to pick between the Easynet PoP and the SpeedPartner PoP. Further details about the PoP can be found on the SpeedPartner GmbH PoP Page.

Monday, March 24th - Into the snowy mountains: a new PoP from IP-Man in Zurich, Switzerland

In the midst of a snowy easter we proudly open the first Swiss based PoP in Zurich: chzrh01.sixxs.net. This PoP is located at the TIX, hosted by IP-Man. The PoP is available for all Swiss users and is also connected to the experimental ecmh multicast cloud. Further details about the PoP can be found on the IP-Man PoP Page. Current Swiss users will receive an offer to start using this PoP instead of their out-of-country based PoP.

With the opening of this PoP, SixXS is now present in 15 countries around the world. Many thanks to all the ISPs providing the PoPs!

Tuesday, April 1st - Free 10GE IPv6 Tunnels for everybody

From today on SixXS is offering free 10GE tunnels for a massive amount of IPv6 connectivity. You will now be able to download as fast as possible, in most cases several hundreds of times faster than with your existing IPv4 connection. This demonstrates that IPv6 is much faster than IPv4! Your IPv6 Internet will never have been as fast as this!

Availability is subject to the amount of carrier pigeons that are not stressed out yet to carry your packets from your endpoint to the PoP and to the rest of the world and all the way back. No animals are being hurt in this process or by the carrying of DLT tapes.

Tuesday, April 29th - Popping Scandanavia: Second Port80 AB PoP opens in Oslo, Norway

We are proud to open a new PoP in Scandanavia: noosl01.sixxs.net. With this addition every Scandanavian country has their very own SixXS PoP This new PoP is located in Oslo, Norway, hosted, like sesto01 by Port80 AB. The PoP is available for all Norwegian users and is also connected to the experimental ecmh multicast cloud. Further details about the PoP can be found on the Port80 PoP Page. Current Norwegian users will receive an offer to start using this PoP instead of their out-of-country based PoP.