Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Running a dual stack vps with ipv4 and ipv6 for $2,50 a month

Just got a new vps that supports ipv6. There are still ipv4 addresses out there right now. Soon they will be gone though and it's good to be dual stacked. That means have both ipv4 and ipv6 on the host.

Here's a link to the providor if you want such a host

https://client.fanaticalvps.com/aff.php?aff=041

I got the most basic vps for now at $2,50 a month to start with.

My host is http://solsidan.bot.nu which is reachable on either ipv4 or ipv6.

What's nice is that this dual stacked vps also has the ipv6 address in the control panel so it's nicely integrated. I haven't reloaded to a different OS, but I assume that the ipv6 address works even after an OS change.

So far so good! I'm working on getting the reverse dns working


[root@Solsidan html]# ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2a00:1450:8004::69) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8004::69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=21.2 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8004::69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=21.5 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8004::69: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=21.0 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8004::69: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=21.0 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8004::69: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=21.0 ms

--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 5 received, 28% packet loss, time 5999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.021/21.184/21.556/0.259 ms, pipe 2

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