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SixXS IPv6 Tunnel Provider Is Shutting Down (sixxs.net)

Posted by BeauHD on from the rest-in-peace dept.

yakatz writes: SixXS started providing IPv6 tunnels in 1999 to try to break the "chicken-and-egg" problem of IPv6 adoption. After 18 years, the service is shutting down. The cited reasons are:

1) growth has been stagnant
2) many ISPs offer IPv6
3) some ISPs have told customers that they don't need to provide IPv6 connectivity because the customer can just use a tunnel from SixXS

This last reason in particular made the SixXS team think they are doing more harm than good in the fight for native IPv6, so they will be shutting down on June 6.

3 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Re: Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So everyone will switch to Hurricane Electric now?

  2. hard to be money hungry by DrYak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Finally a company thats not money hungry alone.

    Given that SixXS has been free-as-in-beer regarding their services (and free-as-in-speech regarding some of their client side code), it's hard for them to be money hungry.

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  3. Re: People don't care because ipv4 works for them by marka63 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well get a VPN that supports IPv6. You have had 20+ years to plan for this.