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[murdok]

I could not find this topic on the forums, so forgive me if this has been addressed before, but is Cartika working on providing IPv6 hosting support (DNS records, ,Nameservers, etc.)? I have not seen anything by Parallels on H-Sphere support for the new IP address protocol.

Thanks

[CH-Andrew]

Hello,

Yes, we certainly have IPv6 on the roadmap here. The way hsphere works, our DNS clusters are IPv4 and can remain that way for now - even to support IPv6 web services, etc.. Having said this, we will be pushing forward with IPv6 compatibility with hsphere even if parallels does not address it. Though, this is something all hosting control panels are facing this challenge right now and I would expect them all to address it as things move along here

Hope this helps

[Carl]

So what is IPv6 ....

All internet services and functions are based off of Internet Protocol, IP, addresses. The old version of these addresses, IPv4, only allowed for 4,294,967,296 total addresses to be used. This seemed like a unlimited amount in the 1980′s when this version was originally designed. As of Feb 3rd, 2011 the last of those addresses have been allocated to internet providers for use.

Noticing that the IPv4 address pool was going to run out, the internet gods designed a new IP address version, IPv6. The IPv6 pool of addresses has 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 total addresses available for use. This allows for many more devices to be connected to the internet without the need for IP address sharing.

The problem is that IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are significantly different and can not talk to each other directly. Such as a desktop computer on IPv4 can’t view a website hosted on only a IPv6 address, unless it goes through complicated IP conversions by the internet providers.

This is significant since the IPv4 addresses have all been allocated, Internet Providers will eventually (in the next year or so) will be forced to give customers IPv6 addresses to connect to the internet. Web Hosting companies need to work on making their customer’s websites available on IPv6 so those customers can view them.

Edited by Carl, 28 February 2011 - 10:33 AM.

[CH-Andrew]

Hello Carl,

Nice reply and thank you for posting it. Worth mentioning, IPv4 and IPv6 can run in parallel (its all in the networking on our end). Our plan is to start launching IPv6 shortly - and I imagine it will be a default deploy shortly. Additionally, ISPs can still run IPv4 and visit IPv6 addresses, but, they have some work to do on their end to accommodate this. There is certainly going to be a mismash of IPv4 and IPv6 for the long forseeable future. It will be very common to have services and networks split amongst the 2 protocol and having connections made between the 2 protocols.