From ocl at gih.com  Mon Feb  1 10:47:43 2010
From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:47:43 +0100
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg] Fwd: Update - Week 26th Jan - 31st Jan 2010
Message-ID: <4B66B14F.9080501@gih.com>

The send date was wrong, and I realise that this was probably caught in 
your respective/collective anti-spam traps.
I hope this one reaches you.
Kind regards,

Olivier

-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Update - Week 26th Jan - 31st Jan 2010
Date : 	Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:27:39 +0100
De : 	Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
Pour : 	IPv6crawler-wg at gih.com



Hello everyone,

just a quick update on last week's activities.

The HP Proliant DL140 and DL360 server have both been sourced, built and
supplied by Omer.

* Dell DL 140 - Web Server
- Dual Xeon Processors running at 3.4 GHz 2MB Level 2 Cache 800MHz
front-side bus supporting Hyper-Threading Technology
- 4Gb RAM
- 2 x 1Tb SATA disks, running as a software RAID
- 500W power supply

* Dell DL360 - Crawler
- Dual Intel Xeon 3.8 GHz/800MHz - 2MB L2
- 4Gb RAM
- 2 x 340Gb hot-swappable SCSI disks running as a hardware RAID
- Dual 500W power supply, hot swappable

Thanks Omer!

Both are now running Centos v 5.4

Pictures of the servers with Rex and Omer in the GIH office,  are
attached to this message, along with the CISCO 2811. The CISCO 2811 has
now been installed by Rex and Alan in the Data Centre, and the servers
will be installed in the forthcoming week.

Our schedule has slipped slightly, since Rex and Alan from 2020media
have gone on an IPv6 course a RIPE headquarters in Amsterdam on thursday
and friday last week. However, this is fine because it will enable Rex
and Alan to know the subtleties of IPv6.
Also, we now already have an IPv6 prefix which will be our base for IPv6
addresses, and it is implemented in the router at:  2a00:19e8::1 -
thanks Rex and Alan!

[root at waikiki ocl]# traceroute 2a00:19e8::1
traceroute to 2a00:19e8::1 (2a00:19e8::1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
   1  adsl-gw6.gih.co.uk (2001:470:1f09:92d::1)  3.970 ms  5.282 ms  5.263 ms
   2  ocl999-1.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net (2001:470:1f08:92d::1)
49.776 ms  72.009 ms  71.994 ms
   3  1g-4-6.core1.lon5.ipv6.he.net (2001:470:0:67::1)  72.791 ms  72.742
ms  73.999 ms
   4  g1-1-1-t40-br3.ipv6.router.uk.clara.net (2001:7f8:4::20ea:1)
72.619 ms * *
   5  ten1-0-0.t40-cr1.ipv6.router.uk.clara.net (2001:a88:0:1::119)
73.747 ms * *
   6  g4-1-t40-br2.ipv6.router.uk.clara.net (2001:a88:0:1::d9)  79.980
ms  76.350 ms  75.836 ms
   7  2a00:19e8::1 (2a00:19e8::1)  79.473 ms  35.184 ms  86.377 ms
[root at waikiki ocl]#

I have a conference call with Sameh and Moustafa on monday to update on
progress.

I've created accounts for everyone on the computers. I'll email you
separately with your account details.

Warm regards,

-- 
Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html



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From ocl at gih.com  Mon Feb  1 18:19:39 2010
From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:39 +0100
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_ICANN_News_Alert_--_To_4=2C294?=
 =?utf-8?q?=2C967=2C296_and_Beyond_=E2=80=93_Under_10=25_of_IPv4_Space_Rem?=
 =?utf-8?q?ains=3A_Adoption_of_IPv6_Is_Essential?=
Message-ID: <4B671B3B.1030806@gih.com>

Hey everyone,

I've made a lot of noise at ICANN around 6 months ago. It's not paying off.
Warm regards,

Olivier

-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	ICANN News Alert -- To 4,294,967,296 and Beyond ? Under 10% of 
IPv4 Space Remains: Adoption of IPv6 Is Essential
Date : 	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:58:29 -0500
De : 	ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Pour : 	ocl at gih.com



ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>


    News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-29jan10-en.htm

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    To 4,294,967,296 and Beyond ? Under 10% of IPv4 Space Remains:
    Adoption of IPv6 Is Essential

29 January 2010

* * *History of IPv4*

It has long been anticipated, but the available pool of unallocated 
Internet addresses using the older IPv4 protocol ? which holds a total 
of slightly more than four billion IP addresses - has now dipped to 
below the 10 percent mark, meaning that there are only a bit over 400 
million IP addresses left in the global pool of unallocated addresses.

The IPv4 protocol defines the unique numeric address number assigned to 
each computer that is connected to the Internet. The Internet was 
developed in the early 1980s <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791> and has 
served us well for about three decades. With a bit over 400 million 
addresses remaining, the IPv4 address space is expected to be fully 
allocated in about two years? time, although predicting an exact date is 
not practical as this will depend upon human behaviour.

?It is important that the public understand that many of the IPv4 
addresses that have been allocated have not yet been distributed to the 
public, so there will be no immediate global shortage of IPv4 addresses 
at the consumer level,? said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN?s CEO and President.

*IPv4 Distribution System*

IPv4 addresses are distributed in a hierarchical system. As the IANA 
functions operator, ICANN allocates IPv4 blocks to the five Regional 
Internet Registries (RIRs) around the world, and the RIRs then allocate 
smaller blocks to ISPs and other network operators. It is the ISPs and 
other Internet operators who assign the addresses to the individual 
Internet connections used by most computer users.

Recent growth in Internet deployment in the Asia Pacific region, 
particularly in China, has resulted in strong growth in allocations by 
that region?s RIR, APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre).

*Consensus Policies Developed in Regional Forums*

ICANN?s process for allocating IPv4 blocks to RIRs is in accordance with 
the global policy that was developed through the RIRs? regional public 
policy forums. This process is very similar to those used for developing 
other ICANN policies, like the GNSO and ccNSO. The RIRs allocate 
addresses to ISPs and other network operators according to the policies 
that have been developed in these forums and which include participants 
from industry, governments and civil society. These forums are open to 
participation by anyone with access to e-mail.


Bottom-up Policy Making Process ? Policy Developed by Users in a 
Multi-stakeholder Environment

*Deploy IPv6 Now*

?This is the time for the Internet community to act,? said Rod 
Beckstrom, ICANN?s President and Chief Executive Officer. ?For the 
global Internet to grow and prosper without limitation, we need to 
encourage the rapid and widespread adoption of the IPv6 protocol.?

IPv6 is the new system the Internet engineering community has developed 
to cope with the increased demand for IP addresses.

Technical experts agree that the single biggest advantage of IPv6 is its 
capacity to accommodate Internet growth. For example, if all IPv4 
address could fit within a BlackBerry, it would take a storage device 
the physical size of the Earth to contain all available IPv6 addresses.

*Why IPv6 Is Essential for Internet Growth?*

Developed in the 1990s <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460>, IPv6 has 
been available for allocation to ISPs since 1999. An increasing number 
of ISPs have been deploying IPv6 over the past decade, as have 
governments and businesses. The biggest attraction of IPv6 is the 
enormous address space it provides. Instead of just 4 billion IPv4 
addresses ? fewer than the number of people on the planet ? there are 
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPv6 addresses. An 
easier way to think of this number is 340 trillion trillion trillion 
addresses. This vastness was purposely designed so that all of the 
conceivable networks now and in the future would have enough addresses 
for the multitude of devices that can now be connected to them, such as 
mobile phones, general-purpose computers, cameras and e-book readers. 
But all sorts of devices that aren?t intended to be used by people will 
also soon have IP addresses. Examples include utility meters and h 
ousehold appliances that communicate with providers to find out the 
cheapest time to buy power.

Similarly, IPv6 can allow people to use off-the-shelf equipment to 
securely connect to a myriad of home automation technologies and other 
systems remotely. There is no need for special gateways and proxies when 
every system can be securely accessed over IPSEC and operated directly.

As such, adopting IPv6 addresses clearly offers a number of advantages:

    * There will be plenty of IP addresses for everyone.
    * Anything connected to a network will be able to have a unique address.
    * The new larger address space can open the door to a whole new
      generation of online devices and services.

?Quite simply, it comes down to the simple fact that IPv6 is the future 
of the Internet,? said Beckstrom. ?The Internet now defines 
communication and commerce and to accommodate its explosive worldwide 
growth we need to act now to guarantee an online future that 
accommodates growth with few limitations.?

To learn more about IPv6, go to:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/factsheet-ipv6-26oct07.pdf [PDF, 402K]

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From ocl at gih.com  Mon Feb  1 23:07:21 2010
From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:07:21 +0100
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg]
 =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_ICANN_News_Alert_--_To_4=2C294?=
 =?utf-8?q?=2C967=2C296_and_Beyond_=E2=80=93_Under_10=25_of_IPv4_Space_Rem?=
 =?utf-8?q?ains=3A_Adoption_of_IPv6_Is_Essential?=
In-Reply-To: <4B671B3B.1030806@gih.com>
References: <4B671B3B.1030806@gih.com>
Message-ID: <4B675EA9.3080005@gih.com>



Le 01/02/2010 19:19, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond a ?crit :
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've made a lot of noise at ICANN around 6 months ago. It's not paying 
> off.
> Warm regards,

I meant - it's NOW paying off.

O.
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From ocl at gih.com  Fri Feb  5 01:04:53 2010
From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:04:53 +0100
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg] Address details for Crawler & Web servers
Message-ID: <4B6B6EB5.2080903@gih.com>

Hey everyone,

I am happy to say that the servers are up and running.
Thanks to Rex, Alan and Omer for getting them, and the network running!
Great job, gentlemen!

turtle.ipv6matrix.org (crawler)  - 212.124.204.162
turtle.ipv6matrix.org (crawler)  - 2a00:19e8:20:1::a2

elephant.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 212.124.204.170
elephant.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 2a00:19e8:20:1::aa

The direct SSH into root is closed, so if you need root privilege you have to login as our own logins, and then su to super-user.
The crawler (turtle.ipv6matrix.org / crawler.ipv6matrix.org) is the primary nameserver for zone ipv6matrix.org.
DNS will progagate soon, so in the meantime, please use the IP addresses.
The FTP server is working on each machine, so you can start transferring software across.
HTTPd is running on the Web server.
Bind 9 (named) is running on the crawler which is the primary NS for zones:
- ipv6matrix.org
- ipv6matrix.com
- ipv6matrix.net

The machines are also connected to each other directly at 1Gb/s through a cross-over cable.
This path can be used to transfer files really quickly between the machines (the data transfers from the crawler to the www server)

The ends of that cross-over cable are:

shell.ipv6matrix.org (crawler) - 194.33.63.250
tusk.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 194.33.63.251

Please let me know how you get on.

Cheers,

-- 
Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html




From mmg at doc.ic.ac.uk  Mon Feb  8 17:55:30 2010
From: mmg at doc.ic.ac.uk (Moustafa Ghanem)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:55:30 +0000
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg] Address details for Crawler & Web servers
In-Reply-To: <4B6B6EB5.2080903@gih.com>
References: <4B6B6EB5.2080903@gih.com>
Message-ID: <4B705012.8020906@doc.ic.ac.uk>

Sameh and Mohamed,

I have managed to log in to the machines myself. Would you please let us 
know if you are having any problems accessing them.

M


Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I am happy to say that the servers are up and running.
> Thanks to Rex, Alan and Omer for getting them, and the network running!
> Great job, gentlemen!
>
> turtle.ipv6matrix.org (crawler)  - 212.124.204.162
> turtle.ipv6matrix.org (crawler)  - 2a00:19e8:20:1::a2
>
> elephant.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 212.124.204.170
> elephant.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 2a00:19e8:20:1::aa
>
> The direct SSH into root is closed, so if you need root privilege you 
> have to login as our own logins, and then su to super-user.
> The crawler (turtle.ipv6matrix.org / crawler.ipv6matrix.org) is the 
> primary nameserver for zone ipv6matrix.org.
> DNS will progagate soon, so in the meantime, please use the IP addresses.
> The FTP server is working on each machine, so you can start 
> transferring software across.
> HTTPd is running on the Web server.
> Bind 9 (named) is running on the crawler which is the primary NS for 
> zones:
> - ipv6matrix.org
> - ipv6matrix.com
> - ipv6matrix.net
>
> The machines are also connected to each other directly at 1Gb/s 
> through a cross-over cable.
> This path can be used to transfer files really quickly between the 
> machines (the data transfers from the crawler to the www server)
>
> The ends of that cross-over cable are:
>
> shell.ipv6matrix.org (crawler) - 194.33.63.250
> tusk.ipv6matrix.org (www) - 194.33.63.251
>
> Please let me know how you get on.
>
> Cheers,
>

From ocl at gih.com  Mon Feb 15 22:47:50 2010
From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:47:50 +0100
Subject: [IPv6crawler-wg] Note to Clients and Colleagues / GIH email
	disruption
Message-ID: <4B79CF16.1050003@gih.com>

15 February 2010

Dear Clients and Colleagues,


I wanted to write a quick note to explain the recent serious disruption
we have had with our telecom systems and how it has hindered our business.

On Thursday 11 February 2010 at around 10:55am, the GIH office lost
connectivity with the outside world, and that affected all of our
servers on-site which were, effectively cut-out from the rest of the world.
Upon testing the line remotely, British Telecom (BT) engineers found
that there was a problem at the BT exchange, and as we pay a premium to
be one of their priority customers, they would have this link again
within 24h.

Due to "an extremely busy day", BT was unable to dispatch an engineer
on-site on Friday, but promised to fix the problem by the next day.

On Saturday afternoon, a BT engineer came to the GIH office and tested
the line from our side, only to say "there is something seriously wrong
- it makes a sound like a fire engine" and proceeded to the South
Kensington Exchange to fix the fault. He called us from there to tell us
that the exchange was completely deserted and that he could not fix this
by himself so the work was moved to Monday - this morning.

On Monday morning, after spending 45 minutes with the operator, I was
told that an engineer was in the South Kensington Exchange, and an
engineer onsite and they were carrying out tests on the line. I was also
told that our second telephone line into the office is also facing a
fault, although it appears that it is a different fault than the first
one - much like the fault in the office next to ours. So no back-up link
possible. Two hours later, I spent another 20 minutes with BT faults,
and they announced to me that this is a major fault, with their cable
being damaged and no spare capacity at all in the area, which requires
closing the road, installing alternative traffic lights, digging the
road up and working on the cables directly. Work would start on
Wednesday 17th February due to the potential for big disruption of
London traffic.

I therefore arranged for our servers and router to be physically moved
from the GIH office to our providers, the Twenty Twenty Media offices in
South London. They are now in place in on a temporary basis, and are
running smoothly again.

Customers and colleagues routing their email through salsa.gih.co.uk can
use the service again since it is stable.

A backlog of 59 000 emails currently being stored at our back-up MX,
psg.com, is being processed but will take a while to clear, so if you
have not received a reply from us, please accept my most sincere apologies.
These exceptional circumstances were completely outside our control.

Special thanks go to Zsena Ka for coming in the office on Saturday and
Rex Wickham (2020Media) for doing an exceptional job on Monday to move
the servers single-handedly, in spite of traffic problems and the
inability to park in the middle of the day in the busy High Street
Kensington Area.

Your sincerely,

-- 
Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html