Welcome to our IPv6 deployment information page. Roller Network has been IPv6 enabled since August 29, 2005 when we brought up our first IPv6 BGP session with Sprint. This site has concurrent A/AAAA records in DNS. You appear to be coming to us today using IPv4 from 54.224.255.17. If you experience any technical issues with our IPv6 service please contact us.
Although we run a completely native dual-stack network and treat our IPv6 service with equal priority to IPv4, please remember that some providers outside of our control may still treat IPv6 as experimental or lower priority. Let us know if you have trouble with IPv6 and we will assist as much as possible.
- 2015-09-24 - ARIN Reaches IPv4 Depletion
- 2012-09-18 - ARIN Enters Phase Two of their IPv4 Countdown Plan
- 2012-09-14 - Europe Officially Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
- 2011-04-14 - APNIC First to Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
- 2011-02-03 - Free Pool of IPv4 Address Space Depleted
- 2011-02-01 - Significant Announcement 3 February - Watch it live!
- 2010-12-24 - AAAA records for incoming mail have been published in DNS. This makrs complete support for IPv6 in our services.
- 2010-12-21 - We're putting the finishing touches on IPv6 support for our incoming mail services.
- 2010-11-30 - We have started migrating IPv6 services away from our test and development network and into their final home within 2607:fe70::/32. During the transition period the existing services will listen on both their old and new addresses.
- 2010-08-31 - 6to4 Relay Activated
- 2010-07-02 - We've turned off our supplimentary tunnels to Hurricane Electric and LavaNet, having been replaced by native connectivity from Global Crossing. We would like to thank them for their service during our issues with Verizon.
- 2010-06-10 - Our native IPv6 with Global Crossing will be turned up Monday at 12:00 local time.
- 2010-05-08 - Mail forwarding is now IPv6 enabled. If a forwarding destinaion is reachable via IPv6, we will attempt to use it.
- 2010-02-01 - Send Mail Using IPv6!
- 2009-11-06 - Outbound Mail Now IPv6 Enabled
- 2009-10-04 - We made Slashdot! Technology: Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6
- 2009-10-03 - Verizon Refuses to Provide Complete IPv6
- 2009-08-11 - A problem with our redundant mail hosting servers was discoverd in testing - the IPv6 address won't fail over quickly due to limitations in Linux libnet. Basically, our routers won't see the change in the IPv6 physical layer destination. We can execute a "clear ipv6 neighbors" to fix it, but it requires manual intervention and is not something we should have to do.
- 2009-07-27 - We may have a solution to the "IPv6 addresses in the logs" problem by storing them as DECIMAL(39). We store IP addresses in their interger value (as opposed to a string) to make searching by IP possible.
- 2009-06-06 - Our tunnel to Hurricane Electric was trapped by an OSPF bug; they fixed it by resetting the tunnel interface.
- 2009-06-04 - We discovered a routing black hole on IPv6 traffic coming to us through Hurricane Electric. We don't know how long it's been happening, but we shut off our BGP connection to them and restored connectivity. (Our inability to reach whois.arin.net via IPv6 tipped us off. Further testing revealed a SixXS traceroute died at HE.)
- 2009-05-06 - It's been a while since our last IPv6 update, but we haven't stopped working on it. We are attempting to acquire a dual-stack connection with Verizon as part of our move to a new facility.
- 2008-12-11 - Testing for enabling IPv6 for our mail services has begun.
- 2008-11-21 - We've added IPv6 access for our hosted mail boxes under "mailbox.ipv6.rollernet.us" and to webmail at "https://webmail.ipv6.rollernet.us".
- 2008-10-21 - A Treo 700wx on Sprint's network can access this site (and others) using 6to4.
- 2008-10-15 - So far there don't appear to be any adverse effects from using A/AAAA records on our ns2 and ns2-auth records.
- 2008-10-05 - We're going to try giving "ns2.rollernet.us" and "ns2-auth.rollernet.us" AAAA records. Since DNS lookups aren't interactive, broken IPv6 resolvers should fall back. (Some root servers have A and AAAA records as well. This is the same thing.)
- 2008-10-01 - Enabled IPv6 for our Primary DNS service.
- 2008-09-30 - Enabled IPv6 for our Secondary DNS service.
- 2008-09-02 - We have completely dual-stacked our network core.
- 2007-11-19 - First IPv6 network under 2620:0:950::/48.
- 2005-08-26 - Early testing under 3FFE:2900:1118::/48 through Sprint.
- Mail Services
- Hosted Mail Boxes
- Outbound Mail Service
- Mail Forwarding
- Primary DNS
- Secondary DNS
- Caching resolvers for Colocation and Dedicated Servers
- Dual stack ports for Colocation and Dedicated Servers
webmail.rollernet.us, www.rollernet.us, forums.rollernet.us, ipv6.rollernet.us
Roller Network uses native IPv6 connectivity from our transit providers.
