Midland Computers

World IPv6 Day

18-05-2011

On 8th June 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test flight".

On January 31st 2011 the last block of IPv4 addresses were allocated by IANA, meaning that there are no IPv4 address blocks left to be allocated.

Whilst this may not seem serious at this stage, predictions are that by the middle of 2012 there will be none left for allocation to customers.

What does this mean to customers of Midland Computers? It means that you have nothing to worry about. Over the last 2 months be have been preparing for this iconic event by upgrading our infrastructure to support IPv6, the replacement for IPv4. Midland Computers are fully IPv6 ready and certified. We currently hold the highest level of "Sage" level in Hurricane Electrics certification proccess and have successully been validated by the IPv6 forum for our reachability.

Currently we have a number of IPv6 only servers and are upgrading existing servers with IPv6 addresses. At the time of writing all mail servers, dns servers and latest web servers are all reachable via IPv6.

We also operate an IPv6 only server, which can be reached via http://ipv6.midlandcomputers.com. You can test your IPv6 reachability by visting this page, if you you can view it then you are IPv6 ready. <-->

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