World IPv6 Day is on the 8th June 2011 and many web companies and network providers, including Save9, will be serving web content and testing network traffic using IPv6 standards during a 24-hour test drive.
The event is organised by the Internet Society – with the aim to try and motivate ISPs, telecoms manufacturers and web companies to prepare their internet services for IPv6.
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the successor to IPv4, the Internet addressing protocol which has been used for many years since the very early days of the Internet. The current IPv4 address space only contains 4.3 billion addresses and they are increasingly being rationed. Put simply; the internet will soon run out of capacity to cater for the increasing volume of devices, clients and servers that need to get online.
If you run a website, and want to take part, you will need to verify that your website hosting provider offers IPv6 (of course – Save9 can help you if they don’t) and we can enable the test for you. You will need to be able to configure what are known as ‘Quad A records’ in your DNS zone to enable people to find you by the new internet protocol – IPv6.
For more information on ‘future-proofing’ (a term we are usually hesitant to use – but quite appropriate here) your web server for the next internet protocol version then please get in touch by contacting Steve Bromham at Save9 on 0845 0299999.
Tags: Internet upgrade, IP Addressing, IPv6, World IPv6 Day
