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Need help with ARIN requests, IP geolocation corrections, IPv6 planning, or IP address management? Justin Wilson helps ISPs, data centers, and enterprises manage network resources.
AI agents change network traffic patterns completely. Instead of humans opening browsers and apps, autonomous systems start talking directly to APIs, databases, sensors, and other agents. IPv6 removes the address limitations and NAT complexity that break large-scale AI communication.
I have written many times that ISPs should be running their own local recursive DNS servers. Today I am releasing this new version of my DNS recursive script for Ubuntu to the public.
Will your network work without IPV6? Yes it will Will your network function better with IPV6? You bet! Why?Less Nat issuesStreaming services prefer V6 over v4.Just a few reasons.
In IPv6, one of the most convenient features is SLAAC—Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. In this post, I will break down what SLAAC is, how it works, and when to use it
Thunderstorms, seventy-degree weather, and snow. Welcome to Indiana weather. In this issue, we have some exciting events and topics. Several folks in Indiana are preparing for the 2025 Midwest Broadband Operators Meeting. This is May 14-15th. Interconnection & Data Center News•Zayo to acquire Crown Castle. •Microsoft Data Centers. This partnership will support an open architecture … Read more
/127’s for point-to-point links (RFC 6164) instead of /64’s https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6164 [RFC4291] specifies that interface IDs for all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary value 000, are required to be 64 bits long and to be constructed in Modified EUI-64 format. In addition, it defines the Subnet-Router anycast address, which is intended to … Read more
http://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online-ipv6-ping.phpIPV6 Ping tool http://www.subnetonline.com/pages/subnet-calculators/ipv6-subnet-calculator.phpIPV6 Subnet Calculator
Only took me about 6 years to do. Been so busy doing IPV6 for everyone else I have not done it for me. I reached Sage level on ipv6.he.net.
So recently I have been posting about the Cambium Networks QOE box I have been testing. After having this run for about a week I figured I would share this tidbit about usage. 55.39% of my traffic is IPV6 traffic. Most of this would be streaming traffic to various folks like NetFlix and Amazon and … Read more
https://docs.preseem.com/changes Features IPv6 Preseem now supports IPv6 for all use cases. This includes the ability to assign subscribers a prefix of arbitrary length. IPv4 with Prefixes of Arbitrary Length Previously Preseem modelled subnet assignments to customers as a number of /32 assignments. For example a subscriber who was assigned a /30 would result in four … Read more
This came across the NANOG mail list. A Longitudinal View of Netflix: Content Delivery over IPv6 and Content Cache Deployments paper: https://bit.ly/2toOGWPslides: https://bit.ly/2ZoEpapvideo: https://vimeo.com/437111302 Some highlights Caches reachable within 6 IP hops and 20 ms-IP path lengths shorter by 40–50%-Latency lower by 64%-Throughput higher by factor of three-Latency benefits more pronounced over IPv4 compared with … Read more