= Сообщение: 3851 из 7440 ============================================= IPV6 = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 04 Dec 16 00:23:23 Кому : Nicholas Boel 04 Dec 16 00:23:23 Тема : SixXs vs he.net FGHI : area://IPV6?msgid=2:280/5555+5843595c На : area://IPV6?msgid=1:154/10+5842e052 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Nicholas,
On Saturday December 03 2016 09:06, you wrote to me:
NB> Is there a difference between how SixXS operated compared to he.net? NB> Meaning, it seems as though he.net makes money on this whole ordeal. NB> They are in fact a DNS provider as well as a hosting facility.
Oh yes there is a big difference between Hurrycane Electric (that is what the "he" in "he.net" stands for) and SixXs.
SixXs is a volunteer operation. I vaguely remember there was second man involved, a Dutchman? But now it is basically a one man show. That one man being Jeroen Massar. SixXs is not a provider, it is just an intermediator between the usres of the tunnels and the sponsors providing the POPs.
he.net OTOH, is a part of Hurrycane electric which is a commercial company running for profit. Their tunnel broket service is just a sideline of their operations.
MV>> There are 15 nodes in IPV6.IP6 running an he.net tunnel. If MV>> he.net were to go as well, that would heva a serious impact on MV>> the Fidonet IPv6 vommunity. Fortunately I see no signs of he.net MV>> handing in their dinner pail yet...
NB> I thought he.net started out as a DNS provider and hosting facility. NB> With the free IPv6 stuff, it lured many people to leave their current NB> providers and go with he.net. So if that's the case, I can't see NB> he.net going anywhere any time soon either.
Hurricane Electric does not seem to go belly up any time soon indeed. But.. they may decide that they have done their share of promoting IPv6 and that providing tunnels for free to everyone is no longer compatible with their bussines model. And so they may pull the plug on that part of their operations.
NB> Did SixXS do it this way? If not, and it was always a free service NB> with no income, I can see why the guy got bored with it.
SixXs always was a free service. Jeroen Massar put a lot of time and effort in it and that is why I do not want to be too hard on him. Yes, he was not alwasy nice. But I can understand why he got tired of explaining for the umpteemth time how something works to another ignoramus who didn't RTFM. He DID provide a vaulable service to the IPv6 community for over 15 years. And now he got tired of it. It happens...
