On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:25:05PM -0400, K. Scott Bethke wrote:
That is not entirely the fault of the hosting companies.. Note that verio, he.net, towardex, and many other progressive hosting companies have been dual stack for a long time. Perhaps the services that are not able to do dual stack will vote with their wallets and either move to a company who can help them with this or at least buy better engineers. Something has to sort of make them do it though, I can't see united.com just coming up with this idea on their own.
I can't speak for the others but he.net doesn't seem to interested in customers making use of their "dual stack" network. We looked into getting IPv6 space from them to go with our IPv4 assignments for a couple of racks of servers in one of their datacenters. They wanted to double the monthly fee for data and drop a second v6 only port to our racks, not my idea of a "dual stack network". Needless to say, we do not have native IPv6, a few of our customers that desired it are using HE's free tunnel broker service though. Michael