This table is a snapshot in September 2011 of the major Service Providers active in Belgium (having a Point of Presence) and their IPv6 status. This is based on: DNS information about their web server, mail relay and DNS servers RIPE information about any assigned IPv6 prefix BGP information about the announcement of the above […]
Category: News
IPv6 for a Belgian hosting provider
Note from the IPv6 Council: this article was written by Frank before June 2011 and it does not reflect the current situation at Openminds as their own web sites and some of their customers have been IPv6-enabled since the World IPv6 Day of 2011 🙂 Our history and interest with ipv6 goes back quite a […]
University of Namur main web server
I’m the network team leader of the University of Namur. Our IpV6 configuration is rather simple. The goal, for the world IPv6 day, was to give IpV6 access to our main website, namely www.fundp.ac.be. As our perimeter firewall does not support yet IPv6 in router mode, we deployed a “IPv6 only” LAN aside, as we […]
BricoZone activated IPV6, I did that indeed as my contribution for the World IPV6 day. I’m the publisher of “bricozone”, this website is one of the largest forums/community in Belgium, speaking about home improvement/DIY, in French. I’m a former network admin at Skynet. Eric asked me to share my experience, as a publisher, of switching […]
Belgian Governement Portal is IPv6-enabled!
Since today, it appears that the official portal for Belgium is IPv6-enabled: http://ipv6.belgium.be just one day after http://www.bipt.be (the Belgian telecom regulator). It seems that IPv6 has made a big step forward this week thanks to the public sector! Well done!
The World IPv6 day is happening on the 8th of June 2011: major web sites (including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, YouTube, Facebook, …) will enable IPv6 by default for 24 hours. Is you organization ready? You have better to check even if you run ‘officially’ only IPv4. To test the client part (when your users will […]
The Belgian Federal Public Service of Economy is organizing a colloquium about ‘IPV6? Why? To stay in the race’. Invitation is open and this happens on the 1st of June. Description is available in French and Dutch.
IPv6 Council at the ISP Association Meeting
First Meeting of IPv6 Council Location:UCL Campus of Woluwe-St-Lambert Date: 16 of February 2011. Welcome, Gunter Van de Velde Gunter is happy, first NL IPv6 task force was 7 people 3 years ago, we are many more for our first meeting. Our goal is to push IPv6 deployment in Belgium including IPv6 news in the […]
This Thursday the Authority in charge of all IPv4 addresses used worldwide on the Internet has allocated the last available big blocks of addresses to the regional authorities. There are no more IPv4 addresses available on a worldwide basis. Therefore it is important that all concerned parties in Belgium acts swiftly to deploy and to […]