Hosted email options for 2026

Email. Possibly the most useful and least sexy of the core set of internet applictions. In past lives I ran Microsoft Exchange , Postfix , cc:Mail , and very, very large Sendmail installations. Since early 2005, though, I have outsourced my own personal email to Google. As an original “google Apps for Your Domain” tester, I had early access to the bevy of tools that Google had to offer, and at my favorite price - $0.

PB190 - IPv6 in Kubernetes Deployments

Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform. Today’s IPv6 Buzz episode explores the benefits of using IPv6 in Kubernetes, and how Kubernetes uses IP addresses in both the control plane and data plane. We also address why the adoption rate is estimated to be so low, from default configurations to issues with non-IPv6-aware applications inside containers. Our guest to help cover this topic is Wim Henderickx , CTO of the IP Division at Nokia.

IETF v6ops Working Group on Software Gone Wild

In a triumphant return, Ivan Pepelnjak has resurected the Software Gone Wild podcast! As some may recall, I was a co-host on SGW for quite a while, eventually branching out into the MODEM.show in around 2020. Well, MODEM has concluded, and SGW has returned. It was quite fun to “get the band back together” and record this one. From the podcast post : The first IPv6 specs were published in 1995, and yet 30 years later, we still have a pretty active IETF working group focused on “developing guidelines for the deployment and operation of new and existing IPv6 networks.