Hi,
It was good to chat to some customers at OggCamp last weekend in
Manchester.
I will also be attending BarCamp London next month on Saturday 23
November. Do say hello if you are there too!
https://thirteen.barcamplondon.org/
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
I think we're ready now for people to try out the new IPv6 /48
assignments so if there's any of you that have a little time to play
around with that please contact me off-list.
I expect everything¹ to work. You won't need to reboot. The /48 you are
assigned will not change later on. Your legacy IPv6 assignments will not
be affected.
Everyone else will get their /48s assigned and routed to them after a
short period of these volunteers trying theirs out.
Thanks,
Andy
¹ I have not yet been through all of BitFolk's firewall rules so there
will be some services that are meant for only customers that will be
unreachable from these IP blocks until I get around to that. We also
need to update all of the IPv6 documentation on the wiki as it is now
out of date.
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Hi,
Very nearly ready to start assigning /48s from the BitFolk net block.
At present each VM has a /64 of the form:
2001:ba8:1f1:fxxx::/64
We are going to start assigning /48s to customers from
2a0a:1100:1000::/48 onwards. That means that the first one is
2a0a:1100:1000::/48
and then the next is
2a0a:1100:1001::/48
and they continue to increment like
2a0a:1100:1002::/48
2a0a:1100:1003::/48
2a0a:1100:1004::/48
and so on.
My question is, do you feel there is any value whatsoever in matching
the customer-specific part of an existing customer's /64 assignment with
their new /48 assignment?
For example, if you currently had 2001:ba8:1f1:f1d7::/64 then you could
ALSO have 2a0a:1100:11d7::/48.
Or, we could just assign them incrementally from the bottom up if it's
felt there is no value in that.
Personally I kind of feel like there isn't really any value here. By the
time we have explained how you mentally map from one to the other I
think you could have just looked at https://panel.bitfolk.com/dns/ and
seen what your new /48 is. I'm not even convinced that there are very
many people who remember the last part of their current /64 off by heart
anyway.
But it was put to me by a non-customer that we "should" do this, so I
thought I would ask! If there's even one person that would like that
then I guess we can do it.
Either way, new customers would just get the first available from the
bottom.
Thanks,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
If there's any of you who are actively using an IPv6 /56 that we've
routed to you, and you don't overly mind rebooting your VM to test
something (maybe a couple of times) could you get in touch off-list
please?
Our records say there's only 19 of you so it's a bit of a long shot.
I'd rather not try this with someone who doesn't normally make use of a
/56 as you may not immediately spot the difference between working
and not. Also I've already tested as many setups as I can think of so
I'd only be suggesting things I already tested!
I can add a little bit of free service for the inconvenience.
(Trying to set reply-to on this but Mailman will probably override it so
be careful not to reply on-list if that wasn't your intention.)
Thanks!
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
