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online.net no ip addresses
FalconInternet
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just bought a $170/mo server from online.net to do a few VPSes on and they have no failover IPs available at all. that's kind of ridiculous if you ask me.
I wanted some presence in france. Anyone else have trouble with them?
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Do you mean you ordered some and they have told you they are waiting for extra capacity?
Seems unbelievable. Even my 5.99 Euro servers have one failover ip each.
Hello,
In fact currently our pool of available failover IP addresses is exhausted. Our network team is already working on adding more IPs to this pool and the issue will be solved soon.
It happens every once in a while, last time they had them available within 12hrs or so.
Support told me August.. So I guess I just pay for a server to sit there until then. You aren't able to pre-order them either.. i guess you just have to get lucky and sign-in and hope they are there.
You can't "order" them, unless they have them available. It just says no failover IPs are available at the moment. Unfortunately, I have to put another server online today because of a product release for one of my clients.. just to handle extra load. I'm firing up other servers I have instead. Just feel like I am wasting money.
I am sure they will refund you or consider your day 1 service start from the day they get the IP's though in light of this, right @bene_online ?
I'd be happy with 1 for today!
@FalconInternet can you send me your ticket number so we can have a look into your issue
I do have 3 IP's with Online not in usage, shame I couldnt let you have them or I would. They are sitting idle until the end of the month =(
What is ridiculous is that in 2015 people still don't even give a thought to "hey maybe we could use IPv6 for this?" You have one IPv4, you can set up reverse proxy, port forwarding and outgoing NAT for your VPSes. That IPv4 thing is over, you could wait for the provider to scramble together some leftovers for you, or you could think about the future instead.
I'm sure @FalconInternet would LOVE to do so, as it is both simpler than NAT and cheaper than paying for IPs. He was talking about clients though... Good luck saying to those non-tech-savy people that they should head for IPv6. "Y not work at home?", "How much does upgrade to version six cost?", " I'll go with someone else then"
Before IPv6 gets rolled out by all major providers worldwide, offering IPv6-only services to clients rarely works.
For one my software doesn't support IP 6 yet. Secondly they don't tell you have have no ip available. I had to order the pro service just to find out they have none. Smoke and mirrors.
I told them to cancel it but they won't refund me their professional service. Last time I ever use this company. I have 75 servers and they are losing a potential huge client.
This is my first server with them and likely my last.
Also @FalconInternet - I asked them on IRC weather I could let you have my IP addresses (moved away from Online - got them sitting around for a month) and they said that the system doesnt let them do that.
Thanks
Harry
Future is a good idea and all, But still waiting on the rest of the world to implement IPv6.
The World has not yet implemented IPv6 because everyone is waiting for it to be implemented
To be honest residential IPs need to get their act together first
What's the point having an IPv6 service if nobody can access it
totally agree hostnoob.
I wish IP6 was an option here.
As I'm a consultant to one of big Canadian ISP, I can tell you, we are not ready and even, don't really work on it... It's pretty outrageous to say to international company requesting it... Sorry Sir, network is not ready, but should be soon...
This song, we heard and tell it for more than 5 years now. However, internal company network is all Native Dual-Stack... and mobile network too.... LOL
ISP should ready learn about NAT and IPv6 ASAP!
Seems IPV4 IPs will end soon
Best solution for the ipv6 issue would be to get big sites to set a date where they stop supporting ipv4, that will force the isp's to implement it. Imagine if facebook did this... we'd have ipv6 almost worldwide within a year.
... or we'd no longer hear anything about Facebook.
Either way, that would be nice !
@bene_online any eta for when you'll get more IP addresses assigned to the pool?
No idea what the problem for online is - Their parent has nearly an entire /16 (or even more) unused (does not ping).
On my panel I can see individual IP's to provision but not any /27's available.
I already cancelled it and just ordered one from OVH in france. I can get 100s of IPs there in minutes if I needed them. Server was online and installed in 30 minutes from the time I ordered.
I think it was a bad choice. Online.net is much better than OVH in terms of customer service.
Not pinging isn't a surefire way of knowing they are unused, they could simply be used on a network where ICMP echo is dropped by a firewall.
Highly unlikely, no ping, no common ports open everywhere (80, 8080, 443, 22) and no ports (full scan) open on random /20s i just scanned.