Apparently, not many server management software products like cpanel support IPv6. A company that a friend of mine works for has such a product and they’re now developing the IPv6 support for it. I can post an entry about some the product when it’s ready.
My IPv6 DNS is on a laptop in my room. Of course, it’s not good. First, I have to keep it on 24/365 and it exhausts hot air even in hot summer. Downtown Tokyo is like a hell in summer. It’s super hot and humid and I don’t want anything that would add more heat.
Anyway, it would be better if I could move the server to a VPS or hosting accessible via IPv6. So, I’m now looking for one.
Here’s a list of companies that offer such services.
This page also has a list of IPv6 enabled hosting service providers, and I checked them out. Some of them don’t offer IPv6 services anymore (or the pages are hard to find, which is a bad sign).
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I announced the launch of the DNS on a blog page several days ago, but it seems to have been unreachable from outside. A guy let me know that on gogo6 today and I confirmed that. I just fixed it and now it’s reachable via IPv6.
So… it would be great if you could try out the service!
Thank you.
This entry is mainly for myself. I looked around on the net for information about IPv6 in DNS.
Ok. Let’s start with Wikipedia, which is not the official information of anything, but relatively reliable and easy to get to. Another good thing about it is each entry usually has links to outside resources, some of which are official information while others of which are not.
This page is from O’Reilly’s “DNS and BIND Fourth Edition”. The book was published in 2001, but not much has changed since then regarding IPv6 in DNS, I guess.
Here are some free IPv6 tunneling services etc.
I’ll add more info from time to time.
I’ve been working on the service that I mentioned in the previous post this weekend, and it’s finishing soon. Well, the UI kinda sucks, but at least it will do the job. I still need to implement some minor features and do some testing, but hopefully, it’ll go live next weekend.
It’s very simple. You just register AAAA records or other ones, and my server will work as the name server for your domain. It’ll be hosted on a machine that can be accessible only via IPv6.
Actually, I started this simple thing a few months ago (or even before), but it took a long time for me to start working on it seriously. Anyway, it’s coming soon, finally.
Hi there,
I’m more like a programmer not a network engineer, but am very much interested in IPv6 maybe because here in Japan IPv4 addresses are running out. I lived in North America for 3 years in total (from 2005 to 2008) and didn’t hear anybody talk about IPv6.
There are not many services that offer “native” IPv6 connectivity not only in Japan but around the globe. Currently, I use an IPv6 service (Japanese page) provided by my ISP that uses L2TP. I use a cheap netbook running Windows as a “router” for the service. I’m more or less satisfied with it.
I’m now working on a small web service that will offer secondary DNS functionality, with which you can register your DNS servers there and have it do zone transfer, or you simply register entries such as AAAA and have it work as the primary DNS of your domain.
The service will be available on www6.ipv6users.net hopefully soon.