[172358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Seitz)
Tue Jun 17 12:30:59 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:30:50 -0400
From: Bryan Seitz <seitz@bsd-unix.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <web-163032@mail.ropeguru.com>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:35:17AM -0400, rwebb@ropeguru.com wrote:
> Not impressed at all. DO customers have been asking for IPv6 for
> around two years now with responses of, "It's coming". Now they are
> getting press because they are rollingit our ONLY in their Singapore
> market which is its newest data center. Those of us here in the US are
> still getting the same ole, "It's coming" responses.
>
> There are other VPS's out there that are already givinf IPv6
> addresses. I have two with www.peakservers.com where I get one IPv4
> and 8 IPv6 addresses.
>
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:06:49 -0700
> Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have not tried it out, this makes it look like DO beat Azure to
> >market
> > on ipv6
> >
> > http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/17/digitalocean-ipv6/
> >
> > Speaking of Azure and ip adresses
> >
> > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363580/need-to-move-to-ipv6-highlighted-as-microsoft-runs-out-of-us-address-space.html
Agreed as well. It isn't hard to dual stack, maybe they bought some junk gear that has issues in the older datacenters? :)
Howevveeerrr.... they are also the cheapest thing going (other than Vultr.com) so you also get what you pay for :)
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Bryan G. Seitz
