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Fun Stuff IPv6

IPv6 Public NTP Servers

Roller Network is pleased to announce the availability of two public NTP servers available over IPv6. Do you have IPv6? Now there’s one more thing you can do: set your clock with it!

The Roller Network Public NTP servers are:

  • ntp6a.rollernet.us
  • ntp6b.rollernet.us

These servers are physically located in Reno, Nevada, United States. By using these servers you agree to configure your NTP client according to the Open Access Time Server Guidelines.

With our low latency IPv6 native network core and IPv6 native dual-stacked transit providers, Roller Network can provide IPv6 connectivity at the same quality of service as IPv4 – there are no tunnels of any kind in our network. If you find this service useful please consider supporting Roller Network by using any of our paid-for services.

Disclaimers: This is a public service with no warranty and no guarantees. All forms of known and unknown abuse are prohibited. We reserve the right to define abuse at our discretion. Do not use “burst”. Do not configure using IP addresses. Do not hardcode our DNS names or IP addresses. No IPv4 access. We simply ask everyone to respect the service so we can continue to offer it.

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Announcements IPv6

Added NTP Servers to Server List

We had one of our colo customers ask if we had NTP servers. Yes, we do!  But we didn’t have them listed in the account control center, so we’ve corrected that oversight. Our NTP servers will answer on IPv4 and IPv6.

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IPv6

APNIC First to Run Out of IPv4 Addresses

Someone had to be first, and it looks like it’s APNIC. Earlier this year all of the regional registries were given a final /8, and APNIC is the first to reach the end game. Have you thought about your IPv6 plans lately?

 

Dear APNIC community

We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC
pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three
of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage
Three, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages

Last /8 address policy
———————-

IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in “Policies
for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region”:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10

APNIC’s objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space
for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq

>From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled
to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address
space.

For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8
policy, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/criteria

Act NOW on IPv6
—————

We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6
within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information
regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional
policies at:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv6

To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit:

http://www.apnic.net/kickstart

_______________________________________________________________________

APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net
Asia Pacific NetworkInformation Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
_______________________________________________________________________
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Q&A

Where we are with DNSSEC

From time to time we get questions on DNSSEC support. There are many parts to DNSSEC, but here’s we we stand as of this post:

Our Secondary DNS service (which is based on BIND9) has supported DNSSEC for several years and we have received confirmed reports from some of our customers that use the secondary service that it does work. The Primary DNS service does not support it at this time since it’s based on a version of PowerDNS that lacks DNSSEC support. However, the next release version of PowerDNS will have it, at which point we can work on integrating it into our control center.

On the network side we do not employ any type of mechanisims that try to be “smart” with manipulating DNS traffic incorrectly. Further to that, both UDP and TCP are open for DNS traffic. Contrary to popular belief, DNS queries can use TCP for queries other than AXFR if the UDP query failed, so we allow both.

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Announcements

Registry Price Increases: .org and .biz

Due to registry price increases for .org (Public Interest Registry) and .biz (Neustar), our new price for these TLDs will be:

  • .org $11.50
  • .biz $11.60