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Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering


From: Bryan Seitz <seitz () bsd-unix net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:30:50 -0400

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:35:17AM -0400, rwebb () ropeguru com wrote:
Not impressed at all. DO customers have been asking for IPv6 for 
around two years now with responses of, "It's coming". Now they are 
getting press because they are rollingit our ONLY in their Singapore 
market which is its newest data center. Those of us here in the US are 
still getting the same ole, "It's coming" responses.

There are other VPS's out there that are already givinf IPv6 
addresses. I have two with www.peakservers.com where I get one IPv4 
and 8 IPv6 addresses.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:06:49 -0700
  Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com> wrote:
I have not tried it out, this makes it look like DO beat  Azure to 
market
on ipv6

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/17/digitalocean-ipv6/

Speaking of Azure and ip adresses

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363580/need-to-move-to-ipv6-highlighted-as-microsoft-runs-out-of-us-address-space.html

Agreed as well.  It isn't hard to dual stack, maybe they bought some junk gear that has issues in the older 
datacenters? :)
Howevveeerrr.... they are also the cheapest thing going (other than Vultr.com) so you also get what you pay for :)

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Bryan G. Seitz


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