Blog Entry of 2011-Jun- 8 in PRTG 8
Paessler Monitors World IPv6 Day Websites
On the "World IPv6 Day", June 8th, some of the biggest sites on the Internet, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and others, are enabling their web servers for IPv6 at the same time.
Dual Stack
The websites of these providers are now available via the former IPv4, as well as the succeeding IPv6 protocol. The world will soon run out of IPv4 addresses for websites and all other Internet services, so in a not so distant future the so-called "dual-stack" system will be the usual way to run websites.
Today the world is testing this new hosting technology. It is expected that less than 1% of Internet users will be cut off for this day due to technological problems in their network or Internet connection. Last September German IT-news website heise.de (www.heise.de) had its own IPv6 day. Responses were very positive, so they kept running the dual stack system ever since.
PRTG and IPv6 Support
We are currently working on the next major version of PRTG and this will, of course, include support for IPv6. Below you can see a screenshot of a lab version of PRTG 9 that monitors selected participating "World IPv6 Day" websites using the old IPv4 protocol, as well as the new IPv6 protocol.
Yesterday most of the IPv6 sensors were showing a red error status. Today all of them are green! So IPv6 works. At least for our office and data center. :-)
Stay tuned for more IPv6 stuff from Paessler in the near future…
