I had calls with a couple of friends over this week and somehow discussion IPv6 deployment came up. “How much has been IPv6 deployment in India now in 2020” is a very interesting question. It’s often added with – “how…
Tag: IPv6
Calculating IPv6 subnets outside the nibble boundary
Often this comes into the subnetting discussion by my friends who are deploying IPv6 for the first time. How do you calculate subnets outside the 4-bit nibble boundary? This also happens to be one of starting points of APNIC IPv6…
APNIC Hackathon at APRICOT 2018
APNIC and RIPE NCC are doing a hackathon at APRICOT 2018. It just started today with some light interaction with various participating members yesterday. https://2018.apricot.net/program/hackathon/ The theme of the hackathon is around IPv6. Many cool projects were suggested yesterday and…
IPv6 Only Web Hosting
Saw this excellent presentation in UKNOF 34 by Peter Stevens from Mythic Beasts. Really enjoyed the challenges and fixes he shared in running an IPv6 only web hosting. A must watch for geeks 🙂 Also, UKNOF & NLNOG both seem to…
IPv6 allocations to downwards machine with just one /64
One of my friend went for a VM with a German hosting provider. He got single IPv4 (quite common) and a /64 IPv6. Overall /64 per VM/end server used to be ok till few years back but now these days running…