About 4 years ago, I started reading up on IPv6. It was clearly the wave of the future. I found that there were a couple of companies that were providing free "tunneling" services, that would let me reach IPv6 addresses on the Internet through my home ISP, even though they did not support IPv6 themselves.
I played around. Never really got the tunneling working. Came back later, tried again. Never really spent any time figuring out why it wasn't working. I always wound up feeling somehow that it was my home gateway.
Yesterday, I finally made the plunge, and got a tunnel working! I was able to reach an IPv6 address with my laptop. I felt sheepish about waiting so long to take the time. Like many in the tech world, my sleeping interest had been awakened by IANA's announcement that the last unassigned blocks of IPv4 addresses had been given out.
Which leads to the inspiration for this post, and the overhaul of gharmon.com that was necessary to display it - gharmon.com is now reachable by IPv6!
After a day of contacting my preferred hosting providers, and getting the same response over and over (we have plans to support, but no date yet), I settled on Hurricane Electric as a host. gharmon.com is now a dual-stack site, with both an IPv4 address and an IPv6.
This puts all my IPv6 eggs in one basket: Hurricane is hosting this site, they provide the tunnel that lets me use IPv6 despite my ISP's lack of support, and they administer the IPv6 certification program that I am working my way through. And for now, I'm happy with that.
Welcome to the new Internet! Visit me on IPv6 if you can.