September 8, 2014 archive
Sep 08
Watch ION Belfast / UKNOF Live Tuesday, Sept 9, for IPv6, DNSSEC, BGP Security and More (Featured Blog)
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, you have a great opportunity to watch live a very packed agenda full of great sessions about IPv6, DNSSEC, routing/BGP security and other components of Internet infrastructure streaming out of the UKNOF / ION Belfast event in Belfast, UK. All of the sessions can be seen live. More...
Sep 08
Yea! LinkedIn Joins Facebook And Google In Permanently Enabling IPv6
We were delighted to read today that LinkedIn has now permanently enabled IPv6 for their website. I proved it myself by visiting the LinkedIn site moments ago using a Google Chrome browser with the IPvFoo extension installed:
As my colleague Phil Roberts writes on the Internet Technology Matters blog:
As they say, “The transition to IPv6 is invisible for our members.” So if you’re a member who has looked at your LinkedIn profile today, you did this over IPv6 and probably weren’t aware. I’m also encouraged that in their trial run before the full launch, they saw about 3% of their members using IPv6 to reach them.
Given that I have native IPv6 in my home office, presumably my connections to LinkedIn from my various devices will now start to all be over IPv6… which is excellent for the growth of the Internet!
Personally, given how much I do with social media, I’m pleased because this now means that with one exception the major social networks I use will all work over IPv6:
- Google … both for Google+ and for YouTube
… which just leaves Twitter as the major social media laggard still stuck on legacy IPv4 (of the social networks I use).
When you consider that other major sites like Yahoo, Wikipedia, AOL, Netflix and thousands of other web sites are now available over IPv6, adding LinkedIn to those sites is a great addition.
Particularly when LinkedIn has a major focus right now of aiming to recruit people to publish content on their platform – this move means that all that new content will now be accessible to all the new networks that are coming online via IPv6.
Congratulations to Zaid Ali Kahn and the rest of the LinkedIn team that made this happen! As he notes in his post:
Rolling out IPv6 at scale was not a trivial task. Our IPv6 task force has worked for a year to ensure today’s smooth addition of IPv6 connectivity. We did many code changes and a series of production tests along the way, including a recent 42-hour global test where we saw approximately 3 percent of members visiting LinkedIn services via IPv6. The IPv6 task force was a collective effort of many talented individuals across engineering and operational teams.
Congrats! And we look forward to many other content providers and web sites joining the production version of the Internet running over IPv6!
If you want to get started with making the move to IPv6, please see our Start Here page to find resources most appropriate to your type of organization. If you operate a web site like LinkedIn, you may find our “IPv6 for content providers” page the easiest place to start. And please do let us know if you need more help!
Sep 08
FIR #772 – 9/8/14 – For Immediate Release
Young PR Pros joins the FIR network; Quick News: NYPD sends cops to Twitter school, Sprinklr acquires Branderati, Mobile drives coupon growth, prosperity is why languages die; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Five trends shaping the future of work, how to speed up legal approvals, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, a look at experential marketing, Dan York's Tech Report, Igloo Software promo, the past week on the FIR Podcast Network, what else is wrong with native advertising?; music from Michele Ari; and more.
Sep 08
Watch UKNOF Today To Learn About IPv6, IXPs, Internet Connectivity
Want to learn about IPv6, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and some of the latest connectivity ideas in the United Kingdom? If so, you can watch the live webcast of UKNOF 29 starting today, September 8, 2014, at 13:30 British Summer Time (BST, which is UTC+1). The critical links to know are:
Today’s sessions are mainly focused on network operations and Internet connectivity and include:
- HEAnet’s Optical Backbone & School’s Connectivity
- Watery Wireless
- Options for Metro 100Gig
- Network Function Virtualisation, bringing virtualised network infrastructure into the cloud
- Broadcast editing and delivery over IP (from the BBC)
- LINX’s UK regional peering strategy
- An overview of BT’s network infrastructure in Ireland and Northern Ireland including connectivity to the the rest of the UK
- UKNOF Status Update
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the morning sessions include some that may be of interest to our readers and then the afternoon will be our ION Belfast event. Here’s the current UKNOF agenda going from 09:30-12:35 BST:
- Latest Internet Plague: Random Subdomain Attacks (about DNS security)
- Tales of the unexpected – handling unusual DNS client behaviour
- Using 100 Billion DNS Queries to Analyse the Name Collision Problem
- What went wrong with IPv6?
- IPv6-only Data Centres
- Introduction of UK IPv6 Council
In particular I would point your attention to the “What went wrong with IPv6?” talk at 11:30 BST by Dave Wilson from HEAnet. He recently gave a version of this talk at RIPE 68 and both the video and the slides from that talk are available. He asks some great questions and, I think, has some great ideas for we can advance IPv6 deployment – definitely worth listening to!
After a lunch break, our ION Belfast event will then begin with a packed agenda talking about IPv6, DNSSEC and securing BGP. That, too, will be webcast live for all to see!
All in all it will be two days of outstanding sessions talking about the Internet’s infrastructure and how we can make it work better, faster and more secure!
I hope you will join me in tuning in to watch!
