Archive for the 'IPv6' Category

World IPv6 Day

Wednesday, 8th of June 2011

Today is World IPv6 Day where a lot of major websites like Google or Facebook finally support IPv6 access for everyone. Unfortunately they plan to turn IPv6 access off tomorrow. Well, this blog supports IPv6 since its creation. And I don’t have any plans to turn IPv6 access off. Oh, before I forget. Some people hid [...]

YouTube via IPv6

Wednesday, 3rd of February 2010

Google recently enabled IPv6 support for their popular video portal YouTube. This resulted in a significant increase of IPv6 traffic on the Internet. The amount of IPv6 traffic running through the DE-CIX e.g. grew roughly by a factor of four. This is a big step in the right direction in my opinion. Finally a lot of [...]

Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.

Monday, 1st of February 2010

A few month ago I discovered that Cisco broke IPv6 support in the IOS (Cisco’s operating system) that is running on my Cisco 877W router. This was quite annoying as IPv6 support was the only reason that I bought such an expensive router in the first place. As my support contract doesn’t allow me to [...]