[157982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Sun Nov 18 19:08:33 2012
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:05:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb7zWsO6t0Dhpn7rW1HHXW_2Z_OFNLhQPEpg9XxNRHo2Nw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> I came across an interesting problem in trying to find an affordable
> KVM provider with IPv6 support.
Does "affordable" mean cheap?...
> I've tried contacting them in an effort to receive any kind of a
> "proper" IPv6 address without the plaintext IPv4 embedment, but
> they've given me all sorts of crazy and (IMHO) far-sketched excuses;
So you've contacted cheapo providers and you are now surprised that they
can't afford to hire people who know what they are talking about?
> (HE's tunnelbroker.net, on the other hand, has no problem in giving
> out IPv6 addresses that, when abbreviated, can be represented by the
> same number of ASCII characters as an IPv4 address; for free, might I
> add.)
Clearly HE has people who know what they are doing when it comes to IPv6,
probably because they have made a MAJOR investment in both people and
infrastructure to do so.
Explain again why you aren't using HE for your services?
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