{"id":3010,"date":"2010-06-20T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:19:11","slug":"facebook-adds-ipv6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/facebook-adds-ipv6\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Adds IPv6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Facebook<\/a>NetworkWold<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that Facebook<\/a> began offering “experimental, non-production” support for IPv6 on June 10,2010. With more than 350 million active users. 65 million of them accessing the site through mobile devices, Facebook is planning its deployment of native IPv6 to its network backbone. The social network says it wants to support both IPv4 and IPv6-aware clients. In a presentation at the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference<\/a>, Facebook’s network engineers said it was “easy to make [the] site available on v6.”<\/p>\n

\"Facebook\"<\/a>Facebook said it deployed dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support on its routers, and that it made no changes to its hosts to support IPv6. FB also said it was supporting an emerging encapsulation mechanism known as Locator\/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), which separates Internet addresses from endpoint identifiers to improve the scalability of IPv6 deployments. “Facebook was the first major Web site on LISP (v4 and v6),<\/em>” Facebook engineers said during their presentation. They also said that using LISP allowed them to deploy IPv6 services quickly with no extra cost. Facebook’s IPv6 services are available at www.v6.facebook.com, m.v6.facebook.com, www.lisp6.facebook.com, and m.lisp6.facebook.com.<\/p>\n

John Curran, president, and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN<\/a>) has been urging Web site operators to deploy IPv6. Curran set a deadline of Jan. 1, 2012, when all public-facing Web sites must support IPv6 or risk providing visitors with lower-grade connectivity. The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia-Pacific region, experts say<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ARIN<\/a>Richard Jimmerson, CIO at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), told<\/a> NetworkWorld<\/em>, “It’s moving so fast now that it’s hard for us to be current on it any longer,” ARIN provides IPv4 addresses to carriers in North America. “We’ve gone through 10 \/8s since the beginning of this year,” Jimmerson says. “To put that in perspective, in all of 2009, we only went through eight \/8s. It’s very possible that the IANA free pool will deplete in December or January at the earliest.”<\/p>\n

The article reports that demand for IPv4 addresses remains flat in North America, there has been a huge surge in the Asia-Pacific region this year that is likely to stay strong. “The Asia-Pacific region has very large economies that are underserved by IP addresses such as India, China, and other places,” Jimmerson told NetworkWorld<\/em>. “They are really seeing a big surge in broadband deployment and wireless data handset deployment, and that translates into having to have unique IP address space. That trend is likely to continue.”<\/p>\n

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Just last week, I was speaking with a potential client about getting ready for IPv6 on their network. They had not even talked yet with their ISP about getting IPv6 traffic to them, let alone how they were going to deal with IPv6 in and out of the network.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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