IPv6 Day Scalax Cloud Ready

World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011 is scheduled inevitably. On this day, the largest Internet companies - Google , Facebook , Yahoo! , Akamai , Cisco and many others - will launch their IPv6 infrastructure in test mode, and within 24 hours, users will be able to evaluate the performance of the new protocol in practice. It's no secret that 2011 is a turning point in the long process of transition from IPv4 to IPv6. IPv4 addresses have already ended , and a decisive step towards meeting the future of the Internet is inevitable. Oversun is also trying to keep up with the giants of the industry, and we are pleased to announce that our cloud platform, Skalaxi, is fully ready for the transition to IPv6.

Our data center Oversan-Mercury is now fully compliant with the requirements of IPv6. RIPE courses completed and a block of addresses received / 32. In the process of implementation, it turned out that there are still many problems in the interaction of “multi-vendor hardware” over IPv6 routing protocols and other technologies. Somewhere IPv6 is not supported by hardware, somewhere there is no IPv4 / IPv6 address translation, somewhere there is tunneling. However, all difficulties are solved and currently we have established IPv6 interaction with the largest Russian and foreign operators, as well as being present at the Moscow point of traffic exchange MSK-IX . Anyone interested can learn more details about our network from publicly available sources .

In all Skalaxi virtual machines, both Linux and Windows, a unique IPv6 address ( global scope , not to be confused with the “local” link-local scope) appeared on the external network interfaces. You can find it with the command ifconfig for Linux:
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ipv6:~# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ce:00:02:5b:00:51
inet addr:188.127.249.86 Bcast:188.127.249.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2a01:a900:1:25b:cc00:2ff:fe5b:51/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::cc00:2ff:fe5b:51/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:200116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12243147 (11.6 MiB) TX bytes:40371 (39.4 KiB)

or ipconfig for Windows:

C:\Users\>ipconfig
IP Windows
Ethernet adapter 2:
DNS- . . . . . :
IPv6-. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2a01:a900:1:64c:5d55:b425:fc06:6b7
IPv6- . . . : fe80::5d55:b425:fc06:6b7%13
IPv4-. . . . . . . . . . . . : 188.127.230.139
. . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
. . . . . . . . . : 188.127.230.254

You can verify that your machine is accessible externally via IPv6, for example, using online IPv6 ping .

If you want your users to access your website via IPv6, you need to add a new AAAA DNS entry in the control panel for your domain, for example:

example.ru AAAA 2a01:a900:1:25b:cc00:2ff:fe5b:51

In addition, you most likely need to add a couple of lines to your web server's configuration so that it starts accepting IPv6 connections. How to do this, it is better to look in the documentation.

You can now test IPv6 performance. Most Linux network commands have their counterparts for working with IPv6:

# ping6 ipv6.google.com
# traceroute6 scalaxy.ru
# telnet -6 oversun.ru 80

In Windows, for working with IPv6, standard commands start with the -6 key. for example

tracert -6 www.kame.net

As you may have guessed, all the sites of our company - scalaxy.ru , oversun.ru - are available via IPv6. DNS servers ns3.scalaxy.ru and ns4.scalaxy.ru, which host zones configured through the control panel, are also ready to accept requests over IPv6.

Oversun-Mercury datacenter customers who place their equipment in it will be able to start using IPv6 as early as July.

Recall that if your home provider does not support IPv6 yet, you can use one of the transition technologies : tunneling, 6to4 or Teredo .

Anyone can try ipv6-internet using bonus 150r. on the bill. Our world's best tech support is ready to answer any of your questions about IPv6, go to oversun.zendesk.com , write to twitter @scalaxy .