This website rayed.com is now IPv6 ready:

$ dig rayed.com AAAA 

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;rayed.com.			IN	AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
rayed.com.		21600	IN	AAAA	2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe70:5c6a

You can test IPv6 readiness for any website from IPv6 Test service.

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IPv6 Technical Introduction

Getting IPv6 connectivity to your server isn’t very hard in fact if you have a decent provier you might already have it configured.

Do you have IPv6 already configured?

First try this command

$ ifconfig -a 

You will have result like this:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:0b:d6:7b:b8  
          inet addr:88.85.245.43  Bcast:88.85.245.47  Mask:255.255.255.248
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:bff:fed6:7bb8/64 Scope:Link
          :
he-ipv6   Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4

inet6 addr: 2001:470:1f08:1160::2/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::5855:f52b/64 Scope:Link
:
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
:

Unfortunately, I was very busy organizing I didn’t have a chance to take a lot of pictures.

اذا كان لك اهتمام بالانترنت، والشبكات فيجب ان تحضر. هناك أكثر من عرض يجب على الجميع حضورها.
المكان فندق الشيراتون الرياض، نلقاكم هناك.

Mr. Latif Ladid, the president of IPv6 Forum, left a comment on a previous post on my blog with the latest update on IPv4 exhaustion, only 12% of IPv4 address are left, that is 2% in less than 3 months, the new estimate is 769 days.

This this insightful comment:

The IP address space is down to just 12% with 534 M IP addresses or 32 blocks left. see http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html One of the most obvious and easily quantifiable incentives of the move to IPv6 is the growth and the continuity of the Internet and then the run to the bank for the remaining address space as it will be needed to have a secure dual stack transition which is the most secure transition and will be unfortunately the rich man’s transition. All others will tunnel which is not secure making it the poor man’s transition. Even the transition will aggravate the digital divide between the haves and have-nots in terms of security. The IPv6 Forum knew this problem 10 years ago and pushed ISPs to move earlier to manage a secure transition, but it takes patience and passion to make this happen.

الدعوة الالكترونية الرجاء ارسالها لكل من تعرف وقد يهمة الامر:

I am currently preparing for Saudi Arabia IPv6 workshop, that we at CITC arranging at 8th of February 2009.

The workshop will have many high profile speakers in the IPv6 field.

You can find more information about the workshop at IPv6 website: www.ipv6.org.sa

Don’t forget to register for the workshop.

P.S. the website is built using Drupal

Only 14% of IP addresses are left, which is estimated to be used in 811 days which is around 2 years!!

Does that mean the Internet as we know it will stop growing? yes exactly, if we ran out of IP addresses you can not connect your new game console, phone, notebook, etc... to the Internet.

Scientists has found many solutions to delay this problem, including “classless network”, and NAT, which allowed us to use the IP address space more efficiently.