Author: Chris Pagel
Our first Customer is IPv6 Ready
Citrus IT has become our first customer to enable IPv6 on their services hosted in our Datacentres. You can now visit their IPv6 enabled website at www.citrus-it.co.uk.
Author: Chris Pagel
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Author: Chris Pagel
Author: Chris Pagel
IPv6 is now available in all of our Datacentres
Over the last few weeks we have been completing the process of upgrading all of our customer internet switches and routers to support IPv6. We have now completed these upgrades and can offer IPv6 to customers in each of our datacentres.
The next step in our rollout plan was to setup IPv6 DNS servers. This was completed yesterday with two new servers going live that will give out AAAA DNS records and provide IPv6 reverse DNS to our customers.
You can now also visit the Node4 website using www.node4ipv6.co.uk if you have an IPv6 internet connection. We will be enabling IPv6 on our main www.node4.co.uk page over the next couple of weeks.
If you are interested in getting an IPv6 address range please contact support@node4.co.uk for further details.
Author: Chris Pagel
DC3 Leeds Datacentre is now IPv6 Ready
Earlier this week we completed the upgrade of our Internet switches in our Leeds datacentre. This will now allow us to provide IPv6 connectivity to all of our customers at this location. If you are interested in IPv6 connectivity at DC3 please contact our support team for more details.
Author: Chris Pagel
Our First Experiences of IPv6
We have now begun the process of rolling out IPv6 to our corporate infrastructure, this involved configuring IPv6 on our Cisco ASA firewalls and allowing client devices to configure an IPv6 address.
We have allowed our clients to automatically setup IPv6 addresses using stateless-auto configuration for now while we look at the options available for DHCP. We also setup as Windows 2008 DNS server to support IPv6 AAAA DNS records in our corporate network as well as providing name resolution for web browsing. This allowed us to browse to our first IPv6 websites!
We’ve now been testing this for a few days and everything seems to be running smoothly.
If you are interested in IPv6 connectivity with Node4 please contact our support or sales teams for further details.
Author: Chris Pagel
Node4 IPv6 Rollout Continues
We have now begun rolling out IPv6 to our customer edge switches, so far this is restricted to certain Datacentre halls and isn’t yet available to all of our customers. If you are a DC4 Northampton customer or have colocation in our Derby DC2 Hall 2 location we can now provide you with your own IPv6 allocation.
In fact our first customer was allocated their address space this morning!
We will be planning software/hardware upgrades to our remaining switches in the coming weeks to allow us to rollout IPv6 to the remainder of our network.
