Services

During the lifetime of the 6NET project, JOIN helped to integrate IPv6 in several applications and set up such services to test them and to make all common services available over IPv6. After some time we now offer the following services within our University:

• Nameservice (DNS)
• Webservice (HTTP)
• Fileservice (FTP)
• Mail (SMTP)
• Time (NTP)
• News (NNTP)
• Jabber server (IMPP)
• Conference server (OpenMCU/Asterisk)

In order to launch a pilot we are in the lucky position to already have all major applications at hand with IPv6 support. A slight disadvantage might be that - except for the FTP service - all services run on dedicated hardware and are managed separately from the standard IPv4 application services in the University. While it is good to have all services at hand, it is a drawback to have to maintain two sets of hardware. One piece of advice might be not to set up IPv6 services on different hardware, but to try to integrate IPv6 in the already running applications/services from the start. This should be possible for nearly all modern applications. This could prove difficult or at least need additional work though, as one has to integrate IPv6 in the management structure of these applications as well (see our efforts to try to integrate IPv6 in the name service).