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Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Feb 6 22:23:15 2011

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:21:41 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110207030831.GA6896@latency.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 2/6/11 7:08 PM, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> We (voxel.net, AS 29791) offer dual-stack on all server and cloud
> products.  As others have pointed out, SoftLayer is an excellent
> example of a hosting provider that Gets It on a large scale.
> 
> Sadly, v6 support on popular "cloud-only" services is suspiciously
> absent.  Terremark vCoudExpress, Savvis, Amazon EC2, among others
> don't support it today, or on any public roadmaps...

It's worth noting that the address space used in the large public clouds
 almost certainly overlaps with one's own private numbering plan, and
having had to interconnect with some "public cloud" I can tell you that
I do not appreciate having to 1:1 nat several thousand potential systems.

I poked several about v6 support it would be greately appreciated if
other people would likewise contact your account reps.

> -a
> 



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