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South African IPv6 Usage

Posted by on 2011/10/13 1 comment

Over the past while Simeon’s blog has had a few posts concerning IPv6, and this alongside a few other posts that I’ve come across essentially indicate a very sad state of IPv6 in South Africa.

A quick check on Sixxs shows that while there’s a whole lot of allocations, many aren’t seen on the internet at all. We (AS37105) have had our network fully IPv6-capable for quite some time and we’ve even tested native IPv6 connectivity (dual-stack and IPv6-only) delivered to the customer over iBurst‘s network on a PPPoE session, so with all this IPv6 and no-one to send packets to we started looking at who we could get online. We’ve had a pretty good relationship with JAWUG over the years, and as of last night we’re transiting a bit of best-effort IPv6 for them. One of our customers, SA Digital Villages, has also had an IPv6 allocation for some time and their transit is now IPv6-enabled as well.

Here’s to hoping for more IPv6 in SA soon!

 

P.S. In another post I’ll explain why it’s hard to get IPv6 to a Telkom DSL customer in South Africa natively.

Time, NTP and Shiny Things

Posted by on 2011/10/13 No comments

I see that Regardt beat me to the punch on this one, but we recently got a Meinberg timeserver going. It’s stratum1, publicly accessible and speaks IPv6 fluently! We’ve added it to the pools, so if you use the poolservers you’re quite likely to end up on it sometime.

Aptly named software

Posted by on 2011/08/18 No comments

Just a quick post to also serve as a mental note for later, with two mentions to start off with:

  • RANCID — see here, aptly named because it is indeed quite rancid
  • slapd — the/a opensource LDAP server. The name is equally funny in Afrikaans and English, although the meanings are slightly different (“slap” would translate to “flimsy” for this specific context of amusement)
  • cacti – much like the cactus-plant from which this application derives its name (and which it uses as a logo), it’s guaranteed to be a pain to handle if you’re doing anything more than look at it
  • doxygen – check up the definition for ‘doxy’. This annoying software feels much the same way. Shacks up with something important (in this case the actual docs you care about), but you have to put up with it.