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IANA IPv4 Address Pool Dips Below 10%

With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.

“This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than 10 percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years,” added Pawlik.

View the NRO press release in its entirety at:
http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html

Roller Network is committed to providing IPv6 enabled services. Hosted mail (POP3, IMAP, webmail), outbound SMTP, and DNS services have been available via IPv6 starting in 2008. We are actively testing transport-level SMTP IPv6 services. In addition, Roller Network colocation, dedicated servers, and hosting are available with dual-stack connectivity. For more information on our IPv6 progress, see: ipv6.rollernet.us

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New: Sieve Plugins and ‘managesieve’ Port 2000 Open

We have decided to allow managesieve (tcp port 2000) from external clients. This will allow external tools to log in to the sieve and manage it directly rather than relying on our web-based interface alone. (However, be aware that some clients have TLS incompatibilities that may cause login to fail.)

As such, we have also enabled the ‘managesieve’ plugin for Roundcube webmail and added Avelsieve to SquirrelMail webmail. These interfaces may also be used as an alternative to writing rules directly even if you don’t use webmail.

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New: API mailbox “add” and SMTP “Trim Message (DATA) Size To”

We’ve added two new features: a “new” method for the API “mailbox” method so you can create new hosted mail box accounts through the API and a unique “Trim Message (DATA) Size To” to our mail services.

The “Trim Message (DATA) Size To” advanced option was added per request. It’s unique in that it allows you to set a hard size limit for incoming mail that our system will trim (truncate) to instead of rejecting large messages. It will break attachments and multipart messages that exceed the limit, but the untrimmed part of the message will still make it through. Mail mirroring and forwarding are not affected by the trim – only SMTP destinations.

For more information on these additions see the documentation:

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Colocation, Hosting Delays, and the Holiday Season

If you’ve been keeping up on our newspipe you’ll know that the long story of delays with Verizon continues. We were informed yesterday (Dec 22.) that the circuit was ready, however it still does not need our basic requirements (IPv4/IPv6 dual stack). This is continuing to impact our ability to expand our colocation, dedicated servers, and hosting options.

As such, we have decided to enact a backup plan and bring in an additional circuit from Sprint so we can get back to business with a predictable timeline. The installation interval should be about 60 days plus we have requested an expedite on the order. As we’ve been a Sprint customer for 5 years and already have existing service with them, we do not expect the same problems that have plagued our attempt at obtaining service with Verizon. Furthermore, we are pleased to report that Sprint’s IPv6 offering is moving to their native network after we’ve been on their test network for the last 4 years. As soon as we have more information from Sprint we will share it here.

Again, we apologize for the delays and problems we’ve faced beyond our control in not meeting our original October/November 2009 opening of the new facility.

As today is December 24 this will be our last post on the newspipe for 2009. We’re going to take it easy for the next week so we can recharge and regroup for what lies ahead. As many of you (and us) are on vacation, holiday, or spending the new year with family and friends, we will be operating on a reduced schedule. Technical support will still be available. See you in 2010!

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API Update: Secondary DNS “list” Action

We’ve added a new action to the Secondary DNS called “list” per customer request. This action will simply list all Secondary DNS zones, their current status, and the master. See the API documentation for details.