As you may know the number of IP addresses are coming to an end (well all on the Internet as “we know it”) and as such there is demand to push more and more services and devices onto the Internet using IPv6 IP addresses. IPv6 IP addressing is somewhat different and, as such, requires a bit of trickery to make some existing systems work with it – hence the hesitation in transitioning to the Internet via IPv6.
At Sentinel we want to make sure you can monitor your servers anywhere (IPv4 or IPv6) and keep the experience as simple as possible so we’ve integrated IPV6 monitoring directly into our dashboard and it works just like ‘normal’ (IPV4).
For the techo’s out there you might be interested to know that due to the adoption of IPv6 we have used a technique called “dual stack” to allow our monitoring nodes to be connected to the Internet via both IPV4 and IPv6.
A number of the providers we host our checking nodes with don’t currently provide “native” IPv6 connectivity to us and as such we are very thankful for Hurricane Electric’s tunnelbroker service. That allows us to connect to the Internet via IPv6 using their sweet system. Keep up the good work there guys!
We are really excited about this milestone, a quick Google shows there are less than a handful of companies providing monitoring of servers and devices on the Internet via IPv6.