A few days ago, Linode.com announced native IPv6 roll out in their datacenters. Now, while I haven’t wrote about Linode in the past 6 months, I am still a happy customer. I am documenting the steps I took to migrate away from my HE.net tunnel.

1. Set the TTL low on any DNS addresses that you will be changing. Ideally, do this a fair amount ahead of time.
2. Send in a support ticket to get your /64 allocated. Sidenote: response time: 4 minutes
3. Reboot ‘node so the backend system deploys your IPv6 after it was allocated. [Verify][5] IPV6 status on your ‘node.
4. From a different IPv6 host, run nmap -6 on the existing address to verify listening services.
5. Update DNS, define static networking, be happy.

[5]: http://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6