Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Do Attackers Pay More Attention to IPv6?“: IPv6 has always been a hot topic! Available for years, many ISP’s deployed IPv6 up to their residential customers. In Belgium, we were for a long time, the top-one country with IPv6 deployment because all
It’s a fact: Pv6 deployments are on the raise. We are close to the end of 2011 and this year was really some kind of a kick-off year to deploy the new protocol or to make live tests. I won’t come back on all the new features implemented in the
… and the first World IPv6 Day! This first major event to promote the version six of the IP protocol looks to be a success for most of companies. For most users, it was completely transparent as network administrators prepared all the required stuff on the background. Maybe you were
Next Wednesday will be the 1st World IPv6 Day! Are you ready? What are you plans? Unfortunately, I’ll be visiting a customer but I’ll try to grab some popcorn, coke and to keep an eye on the Internet. The goal is simple: Make a maximum of web sites and online
I’d like to come back to an issue I faced yesterday with one my servers. I think that this story could be a good example as part of an IPv6 awareness program… One of my servers in my home lab runs several virtual machines. This server is reachable from outside
The World IPv6 Day is scheduled on 8th of June. During 24 hours, big players on the Internet will make their content available via IPv6. Popular websites, like Google, Facebook and many more, will be available via IPv4 or IPv6 depending on your network configuration. This blog is already available
Yesterday I went to a cocktail organized by ISPA, the Belgian Internet Service Providers Association. I worked several years for ISP’s and I trying to keep in touch with them to gather interesting information about market trends. The topic of the event was “IPv6” (what a surprise!). Eric Vyncke, CTO
I hate situations like the one I faced this afternoon… I’ve a daemon, written in Perl, running on a Linux box for months now. When I say for months, it means: Without restarting the process or the host except regular upgrades. But, for maintenance reasons, I had to reboot the
In May 2008, I wrote a blog post about IPv6 (Will Finally IPv6 Arise?) with a date: 2011. We reached the deadline foreseen and it’s now official: IANA is running out of IP addresses. IANA (“Internet Assigned Numbers Authority“) is the organization responsible of the assignments of IP addresses to
