Comcast Plans IPv6 Trials In 2010

Mortimer.CA writes "In a weblog posting, Jason Livingood, Executive Director of Comcast's Internet Systems has stated that they're beginning public trials of IPv6; Comcast hopes 'that these trials will encourage other stakeholders to make plans to continue, or to begin, work on IPv6 in 2010 so that all stakeholders do their part in ensuring the future of the Internet is as bright and innovative as it has been in the past.' Interested guinea pigs can volunteer at Comcast6.net (FAQ). Those who have IPv6 connectivity via other means can check out their IPv6-only web presence."

Comments

Grudgingly, impressed.

[Orbijx]

If Comcast actually does what they're saying on the tin, maybe the other ISPs will follow suit.

This just might be a good thing.

Re:You got trapped by OpenDNS

[belphegore]

Ok.... but without IPv6 connectivity (I turned it off), I type ipv6.google.com in my browser address bar, my DNS lies to me, and my browser magically gets (over IPv4) the google homepage. Using ipv6.google.com in a browser as a test for whether your ipv6 connectivity is working is not a good test. I guess if you're testing specifically for the ability to fetch the bouncy logo from that address, that's one thing -- assuming that bouncy logo isn't available at the ipv4 site that opendns is magically making it look like I'm going to, or redirecting me to, or whatever it's doing (no time right now to sniff traffic and see). But the statement:

ipv6.google.com [google.com] is IPv6 only, and if you can reach it, you are IPv6 enabled.

makes assumptions about your network and its services (like DNS) which are not guaranteed to be true.

most routers?

[arbiter1]

I guess it means most companies (aka dlink, linksys, etc) have to get off their ass and add support to their routers since most home routers don't support ipv6.

Re:Isn't that kind of wasteful?

[mikael_j]

The idea is to keep it simple, assign a standard network size that's big enough for just about anyone and assign the same size network to everyone instead of messing around with the IPv4-style "You get _one_ IP, you over there get a /28, and that guy in the corner gets a /24, Joe was an early adopter so he's got a /16 and Steve over there had some good arguments for why he should get a /20, and lucky Dan over there has a /8..." mess.

/Mikael