> After announcing its retirement, many generous people and organizations offered help - thank you! The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry), which will continue running the site in the public interest.
well played. threatening to turn it off on christmas was a great move, must've rattled a few cages in the industry lol.
It's an apparently-simple site, with a greater utility than might at first meet the eye. I've found it very useful over the years, and I'm glad Jason has found someone he's happy to hand it over to.
Thanks, Jason, all your efforts are much appreciated.
https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace also tells you your IP address (but not both), and is notable because it works on any site that cloudflare attacks
My ISP publicly supports IPv6, but I've never gotten it to work properly, and none of the technical support I've been able to been forwarded to knows what's wrong either. Colleagues using the same ISP has the same problem, so doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.
I'm sure there are more people out there in the same situation.
If you look at the weekly profiles you'll notice that offices/companied are lagging behind private users. IT departments not willing to do anything. And IPv6 is used a lot on phones.
Oh no, the Godwin's law equivalent for networking is proving itself once again.
>someone will again complain about the address format, without realizing that shoving in extra address bits on an IPv4 datagram is already a new protocol
So you are having all the pains of transitioning to a new Internet Protocol, but none of the benefits of having an actually huge address space.
Do you really think your solution of "IPv4 with extra octets" will not introduce so called "broken everything"...?
Whether it's the addition of one octet or twelve octets, you are nevertheless introducing a new Internet Protocol, and therefore you are going to face the reality of introducing a new Internet Protocol.
To think otherwise is delusional and is the reason why the "Godwin's law of networking" has become sort of a meme.
For all of the bullshit that is Comcast and their ongoing mission to fully enshittify every single aspect of last-mile Internet delivery at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, I will say that at least they've had great IPv6 support for well over a decade at this point.
Yeah, I'm a Comcast customer and I'm very happy with their IPv6 support. The only things I would want different are a prefix larger than a /60 (say a /56), and the ability to have a permanently assigned prefix on my residential connection (but that's unlikely, I know). As evil as the Comcast business people are, their engineers clearly are trying to do right by customers.
My guess would be RIPE, it would likely fit with the RIPE Atlas?
But it could also be APNIC, they put out a lot of observational reports too, so it could fit with my perception of them. Maybe LACNIC or AfriNIC wants to do something to raise their profile?
DNSMON: Monitor the root and TLD's and other key internet domains. Does so from many locations so as to test anycast issues.
- https://dnsmon.ripe.net/
And volunteer resources to help to run other things, like https://www.as112.net/ that sinks all the PTR lookups for RFC1918 that leaks to the internet, among other things.
That a nonprofit entity whose mission it is to keep the Internet running smoothly decided to provide the resources needed to keep this useful service available.
That doesn't seem too surprising to me and should ensure that the site can be run sustainably without burning out volunteers.
well played. threatening to turn it off on christmas was a great move, must've rattled a few cages in the industry lol.