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Feb 11
TDYR #097 – After Playing In A Great Curling Game, And Also Watching Olympic Curling
After playing a great game of curling down in Petersham, MA, I talked about that game and also about how great it is to watch Olympic curling!
Feb 11
Watch LIVE Today: NANOG Sessions On IPv6 Performance, Addressing
Today’s meeting of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) provides two opportunities to learn more about IPv6 by watching the NANOG live video stream at:
http://www.kikaua.com/clients/nanog/
First, from 2:30 – 3:15 US Eastern time, Lee Howard of Time Warner Cable will present on “IPv6 Performance Bonus“. The abstract is:
Data from multiple sources suggests that IPv6 offers better performance over IPv4. Presentation includes the data and methodologies, plus test results investigating the reasons for the performance difference.
Later in the day, from 4:30 – 5:00 US Eastern time, Athanasios Douitsis from the NTUA Network Operations Centre in Greece will present on “Building an IPv6 Address Management System“. From his abstract it sounds like it should be an interesting case study in how to implement a system for IP address management. (You can also see our IPv6 address planning page for resources related to this topic.)
The full NANOG 60 agenda lists the other sessions that will be happening today and tomorrow, as well as presentation files for sessions that have already occurred.
If you are at NANOG 60 in Atlanta this week, please do remember that our Chris Grundemann is there at NANOG. Please do find him and say hello!
Feb 10
TDYR #096 – Google Passes Another IPv6 Milestone
Today the Internet passed another milestone in the deployment of IPv6 when Google reported seeing over 3% IPv6 traffic only less than 5 months from seeing 2% IPv6 traffic. While the numbers are still small, the growth is hot and trending in the right direction! More info: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/02/googles-ipv6-stats-pass-3-less-than-5-months-after-passing-2/
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Feb 10
Google’s IPv6 Stats Pass 3% Less Than 5 Months After Passing 2%!
Wow! The pace of IPv6 deployment is rapidly accelerating! This morning Google’s IPv6 measurements crossed the 3% milestone just under five months from when the 2% milestone was crossed. Prior to that it had taken 11 months to go from 1% to 2%. The growth path is certainly heading in the right direction:
To be clear, what Google is measuring here is the percentage of users that access Google services over IPv6. Given the range of IPv6-connected services that Google offers, including YouTube, Google+, and Gmail, these measurements do provide a good view into the amount of IPv6 deployed in access networks around the world.
What is driving this growth? In a post on our Internet Technology Matters blog, my colleague Phil Roberts writes:
More operators in more countries are deploying IPv6 and increasing the size of their subscriber base that use the technology. You can see the list of networks that have measurable IPv6 deployments in the World IPv6 Launch. You can also look at the Google country graph of Europe to see that there are substantial deployments in Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Germany, and France, for example. The IPv6 traffic from Belgium alone has almost doubled in the last month.
As Phil notes, we recently predicted IPv6 will get to 10% deployment this year and while that may be an aggressive prediction it is very clear that IPv6 is no longer something that will be mythically deployed “some day“. IPv6 deployment IS happening… and more rapidly than ever!
If you haven’t been thinking about making your content available over IPv6 and/or making your network work over IPv6, now is definitely the time to do so! Please check out our IPv6 resources and please do let us know how we can help you make the move!
Feb 10
FIR #742 – 2/10/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: Klout content sharing recommendations, Wikimedians in residence, podcasting's future, real-time access to Bitcoin cost of goods; Ragan promo; News That Fits: what does your brand sound like?, Michael Netzley's Asia report, nine things to know about using social media at work, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, five social media tips from The Wall Street Journal, this week on the FIR Podcast Network, Dan York's report, companies apologize a lot on Twitter; music from White Denim; and more.
Feb 09
TDYR #095 – Are You Making It Easy For The Media To Tell Your Story?
TDYR #095 - Are You Making It Easy For The Media To Tell Your Story? by Dan York
Feb 09
IPv6 Time Servers (NTP)
Setting the time on computers and other Internet-connected devices is critical. As we move to IPv6, there needs to be access to Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers available over IPv6. The following time servers are known to work over IPv6.
NTP Host Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| 2.pool.ntp.org | The NTP Pool Project provides a global, decentralized network of time servers. Using the NTP pool is relatively straightforward however only "2.pool.ntp.org" is available over IPv6. |
| ntp.eu.sixxs.net ntp.us.sixxs.net ntp.ap.sixxs.net | The SixXS project makes their time servers available over both IPv4 and IPv6. |
| ntp6a.rollernet.us ntp6b.rollernet.us | Roller Network has publicly made two time servers available over IPv6. |
We would like to make this list as comprehensive as possible. If you know of additional NTP time servers available over IPv6 that we should include here, please leave a comment or send us a message.
Feb 08
TDYR #094 – The Extremely Cool Thing About Youth Curling Bonspiels Is …
TDYR #094 - The Extremely Cool Thing About Youth Curling Bonspiels Is ... by Dan York
Feb 08
Weekend Project: Test Out New DNSSEC Support In Dnsmasq
If you run your own small network and are comfortable working with Linux, Android, *BSD, Solaris or Mac OS X, here’s a great way you could help advance DNSSEC: Simon Kelley is looking for people to test the new DNSSEC functionality he included in his latest development version of dnsmasq.
If you are not familiar with dnsmasq, it is a DNS fowarder and DHCP server that is already included in many versions of Linux, including Debian, Suse, Fedora, Gentoo and others. From the dnsmasq website:
Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP/PXE for network booting of diskless machines.
Dnsmasq is targeted at home networks using NAT and connected to the internet via a modem, cable-modem or ADSL connection but would be a good choice for any smallish network (up to 1000 clients is known to work) where low resource use and ease of configuration are important.
If you have a bit of time and could help Simon out with some testing, he would greatly appreciate it – and if this can mean that we’ll be able to get DNSSEC validation happening out in so many more distributions of Linux that would be a great win for making the Internet more secure!
Please read Simon’s message and you may also want to scan the email thread to see if there are any more updates or issues found.
Kudos to Simon for making this happen – and also to Comcast for providing enough funding that Simon was able to work on this full-time for a bit to get it working.
Feb 07
TDYR #093 – A Great Afternoon Of Skiing, And The Sounds Of Skiing
A quick episode recorded on a ski lift and also while skiing (if you hang on to the end after I "ended" the episode).
