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Announcements Changes IPv6

Introducing Complete IPv6 Support

Earlier this month we posted a Sprint maintenance notice and hinted at a larger announcement. This event set the stage for this announcement: complete IPv6 support for our portfolio of services. Sprint needed to install a software upgrade on the router we’re connected to in order to offer dual-stack native IPv6 to our existing circuit. On December 21 we established an IPv6 BGP session to AS1239 and turned off our last tunnel.

We are pleased to announce that we are the first (and only as of this date) service provider in the state of Nevada that operates a legacy-free network that is 100% dual-stack native, including all of our transit providers and peers. Roller Network no longer operates any IPv4-only circuits (or tunnels) and it is our policy to require native IPv6 on any new upstream or peer. Native IPv6 is available to customers of all services levels, from our classic Mail and DNS accounts through colocation, dedicated servers, hosting and internet access to both businesses and residential users. There is no additional cost or special requests required for IPv6 support.

We’re also excited to begin offering IPv6 on our inbound mail service. Effective immediately, we are publishing concurrent A/AAAA records for mail.rollernet.us and mail2.rollernet.us with the servers behind host MX records capable of receiving mail via IPv6 and sending it to IPv6 destinations. This includes, but is not limited to, the popular Secondary MX and SMTP Redirection services.

Throughout the last year we have enabled IPv6 on a multitude of our services: DNS, outbound mail (smarthost/submission), hosted mail boxes (POP3, IMAP), colocation, hosting, and even our webmail. This final step of transitioning to all native transit and supporting IPv6 on the incoming mail component opens the door to an IPv6 future in 2011 and beyond.

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Announcements Status

Christmas 2010 Schedule

From December 23 through December 26 we will be operating on a holiday schedule due to Christmas on Saturday. During this time our technical support staff will be telecommuting from home. If you have a technical support request during this time please open a ticket by email: see the service level comparison chart for expected response times.

The business office will be closed until Monday, December 27.

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Changes

Changes: SpamAssassin, Slow Delivery, New Billing Notice

We have a couple minor changes to announce:

  • We have upgraded our incoming mail server pool to use the latest version of SpamAssassin, version 3.3.1. While it was released earlier this year, we use some custom modules (such as our unified Bayes database) that required additional testing.
  • The “SMTP Redirection (Lookup Record)” service mode now supports Slow Delivery. This change was requested by a customer and required us to add a new transport to our Postfix servers to distinguish it from the direct delivery and MX variants.

And finally, we have made a billing addition: the automated system will now send a 24 hour disconnect notice when a Mail/DNS account is about to be downgraded to a free account. Previously, the automated system sent up to 4 notices/reminders to monthly levels and up to 5 for yearly levels. This change will add one more notice before an account is downgraded. Should this prove to be unpopular we will revisit it; we always try to keep email to a minimum.

And that’s all for now. We hinted at a big announcement on the 3rd, but this wasn’t it so keep watching!

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Announcements Changes IPv6

IPv6 Changes for Primary DNS

As part of our migration of all IPv6 services into 2607:fe70::/32, the Primary DNS servers now have new addresses. They are:

  • ns1-auth.rollernet.us 2607:fe70:0:3::c
  • ns2-auth.rollernet.us 2607:fe70:0:4::c

If you have reassigned our IP addresses to NS records under your domain please update your DNS. The old addresses have been depreciated and will stop answering queries soon.

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Status

Sprint Maintenance Notice

On December 6 there is a scheduled maintenance window that will impact one of our transit circuits. Traffic destined to or originating from Roller Network (AS11170) via AS1239 will be rerouted at least one hour prior to the start time and no earlier than 30 minutes following the stop time as shown below.

Purpose Change
Location STOCKTON, CA
Impact yes
Summary Sprint will be performing Scheduled Maintenance which will result in a loss of IP services for approximately 30 minutes during the scheduled time below.
Start Time 12/06/10 12:00 AM PST
Stop Time 12/06/10 2:00 AM PST
Status Approved

This information was provided by Sprint.

Following this maintenance window we expect to have a big announcement hopefully within the next week, but it will depend on how soon Sprint implements the change this maintenance window is for. Stay tuned to the newspipe for details!

UPDATE: Sprint is now indicating the status as “Complete-Successful”. Actual time our circuit was down: 00:11:23.301 to 00:19:39.883 PDT. Route preferences are now restored to normal.