Roller NetworkWe will be turning up a new FastE circuit to Level 3 on Friday, February 16, 2011 at 10:00 UTC-8. This circuit will provide additional multihomed IPv4 and IPv6 transit capacity to our facility. There will not be any operational impact.
UPDATE: The order was not correct on Level 3’s side, so we couldn’t turn the circuit up at this time. It will be rescheduled.
UPDATE 2: Rescheduled for Monday, March 5th at 14:00 UTC-8.
UPDATE3: The circuit was successfully activated.
World IPv6 day is on June 8, 2011. On this date for 24 hours, many major IPv4-only sites will be temporarily offering their content over IPv6. Some of them have already adopted IPv6, but are not publishing AAAA records for their primary well-known domain. For example:
However, on world IPv6 day the well-known names will have IPv6 and IPv4 (commonly referred to as dual-stacking) for 24 hours. The goal of this test is to motivate internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies to prepare their services for IPv6. This is critical to ensure a successful transition from IPv4.
Roller Network already provides dual-stack IPv6 services for our websites and all major services. Every day is IPv6 day for us, and our customers can rest assured that our service is standard production quality and not a “beta” or “test”. We’ve carefully selected upstream providers that can provide dual-stack IPv6, so we’re proud to say that Roller Network has a fully dual-stack native network – from border to core and core to edge. All of our customers from free Secondary DNS to colocation, hosting and wireless internet have IPv6 capabilities. For more information see the ISOC World IPv6 Day page.
Here’s a handful of test sites (in no particular order) you can use to test your IPv6 readiness:
The folks over at RIPE NCC put together the RIPE World IPv6 Day Connectivity Chart so you can test your connectivity to various sites for the upcoming world IPv6 day on June 8, 2011.
Roller Network offers native IPv6 services from our facility in Reno, Nevada. If you’re interested in a dedicated server, colocaiton, or mail hosting with IPv6 on a fully native network (no tunnels) we’re the place to be.
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:
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.
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.