The Internet is growing at an amazing rate year over year. The current Internet addressing system, Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), was designed to support approximately 4 billion unique connections to the Internet. As a result of the Internet’s explosive growth, a new Internet addressing system, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), is being rolled out to networks worldwide to support even more connections. There are a number of theories as to when the availability of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted, therefore requiring the rollout of IPv6 to all new and existing Internet systems.
As a leader of Domain Name and DNS solutions, Dynamic Network Services Inc is taking appropriate steps to ensure its network will be available for IPv6 connectivity. For those interested, the tasks below outline the steps that Dynamic Network Services Inc. will undertake in the effort to support IPv6 connectivity to its network.
Complete
Progress: 100%
Obtain IPv6 address space from ARIN and IPv6 connectivity from a single upstream provider in one facility. Route this IPv6 space to various servers for internal testing.
Progress: 100%
Implement IPv6 connectivity for DynDNS.com Spring Servers. This permits customers using DynDNS.com Spring Servers to access and play with IPv6 networks.
Progress: 100%
Implement an IPv6 multi-homing strategy to permit IPv6 connectivity to multiple upstream providers in one colocation facility.
Progress: 100%
Provide all customers with an additional hostname to optionally delegate their domains to (i.e. ns-ipv6.mydyndns.org) from DNS servers within a single facility. These hostnames will have single AAAA IPv6 addresses associated with them. This will give our customers the option to add IPv6 DNS servers into their delegation as they wish. Customers who choose to do so do at their own risk, however, our support teams will be standing by to assist with any issues discovered.
Progress: 100%
Upgrade Dynect Platform website, management portal, API, and update system to support access via IPv6 and support update/API requests over IPv6, permitting records to be updated with IPv6 addresses.
In Progress
Progress: 10%
Upon successful testing of a new hostname with IPv6 connectivity, upgrade anycast DNS nodes to support dual stack IPv4/IPv6. Existing nameserver hostnames will have AAAA records added to them. This will cause all existing domains delegated to these nameserver hostnames to become available on both IPv4 and IPv6.
Progress: 0
Upgrade existing DynDNS.com website and update system to permit access via IPv6 and support DNS Update API requests over IPv6 and permit records to be updated with IPv6 addresses.
Progress: 0
Add IPv6 glue record creation and management functionality to domain registration and domain management systems across all product lines.
Progress: 0
Upgrade all Update clients to support detection and updating for IPv6 interfaces with proper detection of link-local and global addresses.
Progress: 0
Upgrade and support IPv6 connectivity to all corporate services, including, but not limited to webservers, e-mail servers, internal DNS services, file servers, and other systems.