Make your IPv4 site IPv6 enabled ... easy and free

Make your IPv4 site IPv6 enabled ... easy and free ... via http://ipv6proxy.prolocation.net/index1.php

Enable IPv6 for your website

Welcome to the IPv6 website Proxy. This portal empowers you to make your current IPv4 website reachable via IPv6.

Your website will only be available via this IPv6 proxy service if you'd add an AAAA record in your current DNS settings. This means that your website IPv6 addre ss has to resolve to the following address: 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131

So, if you've a website called "www.example.com", you should add the following DNS entry to the DNS zone of example.com:
"www.example.com AAAA 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131"

The final step you should take is filling in the name of the website you would like to proxy.

For that last step, go to the mentioned URL.

That's it!

Dutch Weather Forecast via IPv6

Found via http://sixy.ch/ (a site with an overview of IPv6 enabled sites): the Dutch weather forecast of the KNMI is available via IPv6: www6.knmi.nl .

Name: www6.knmi.nl
Addresses: 2001:610:178:ec::96
145.23.253.254

Practice your German ... over IPv6 ;-)

The great German magazine C'T has put their website on IPv6, via a separate URL:

http://www.six.heise.de/ct/

http://www.six.heise.de/

So you can now practice your German (reading) over IPv6. ;-)

North American IPv6 Task Force: "At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks"

Yet another interesting quote:

"At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks that they don't know about, but the hackers do," says Yanick Pouffary, technology director for the North American IPv6 Task Force and an HP Distinguished Technologist. "You can't ignore IPv6. You need to take the minimum steps to secure your perimeter. You need firewalls that understand IPv4 and IPv6. You need network management tools that understand IPv4 and IPv6."

So, at least half of the U.S. companies have IPv6 enabled networks? I guess that's good news! Until now, I heard that too little US companies were doing IPv6, and it would take billions of dollars to get IPv6. Now we learn IPv6 is already there. Great!

So, 40 years later, we can all say "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind".


More interesting (or confusing?) Pv6 stuff here:

http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2009/071309-rogue-ipv6.html
http://www.itworld.com/networking/71015/five-biggest-ipv6-based-threats-facing-cios

Juniper: "look for IPv6 traffic and drop it"

Interesting quote from Juniper:

"What customers need to do within their intrusion-prevention systems or within their firewalls is to explicitly look for IPv6 traffic and drop it,'' says Tim LeMaster, director of systems engineering for Juniper's Federal group.

So Juniper is advising to drop IPv6 traffic?! Interesting point of view from a network hardware vendor; I would expect such a vendor to say "You need IPv6. Buy my stuff that does IPv6".

Oh, wait: maybe the reasoning is this: "You need to drop IPv6. Buy my stuff that can drop IPv6.".


See more "IPv6 is dangerous" stuff here:

http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2009/071309-rogue-ipv6.html
http://www.itworld.com/networking/71015/five-biggest-ipv6-based-threats-facing-cios

Dutch ISP Introweb does IPv6 (-only)

The Dutch ISP "Introweb" is now offering IPv6 over ADSL. See the Dutch information here: http://www.introweb.nl/producten/categorien/internet_toegang/economy_adsl/ipv6_adsl.shtml

It's good to see that an ISP actually offers IPv6 instead of talking about what others should do in the RSN future. ;-(

A few things are especially noteworthy:

• It's a IPv6-only connection. So you need a separate plain IPv4 connection. I think this will mislead IPv6 newcomers that IPv6 needs different hardware, connections, etc.
• It only costs 6 Euro per month.
• Only available for a limited number of customers
• Using a Cisco 8xx DSL router

Furthermore: Introweb has it's own website www.introweb.nl on IPv6 too: http://[2001:1690:2:4::1:3]/

Kudo's to Introweb for doing IPv6!

D-Link DIR-825 home router does IPv6

D-Link has introduced a wireless router named DIR-825 which seems to do IPv6. D-Link itself provides very little information about the IPv6. I only found some information in this pdf ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DIR-825.pdf

IPV6 READY
This router carries both the silver and gold IPv6 Ready logos, signifying that it not only supports the IPv6 protocol, but is also compatible with IPv6 equipment from other manufacturers. It allows you to move to a 128-bit addressing system and directly connect to anybody in the world using your unique IP address. Using a dual-stack architecture, this router can handle routing for both IPv4 and IPv6 networks at the same time, so you can be assured that your equipment is forward and backward compatible

That information is not very useful.

The German magazine C'T provides a bit more information: IPv6 over PPPoE or DHCPv6 for native IPv6 to the ISP. If that does not work, the DIR-825 will use 6to4 or 6in4 tunnels.

The price is a quite high: 160 Euro.