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Mac OS X Problem Puts Up a Block To IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the twenty-five-or-six-to-four dept.

An anonymous reader lets us know of an experiment conducted in Norway to determine real-world problems in using IPv6 today (Google translation; Norwegian original). "According to a Norwegian article in digi.no, Redpill Linpro did an experiment with regard to IPv6 on one of the largest online newspapers there (www.vg.no). They added a hidden iframe that pointed to an IPv6-enabled domain to test real-life problems about the reported IPv6 holes. The result was that mainly Mac OS X, older versions of Opera, and a few Linux distributions exhibited problems. For Mac OS X it took 75 seconds to time out before failing back to IPv4." From the consultant's report: "Mac OS X has a problem in that it will prefer 6to4-based IPv6 over IPv4-based connectivity, at least if its local IPv4 address is an RFC 1918-based private address as commonly found in NAT-ed home network environments. This is unfortunate, as 6to4 has shown itself to be much less reliable than IPv4."

4 of 204 comments (clear)

  1. ugh, apple get with the program!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking Macs! Mine's always fucking up. I am glad I use Windows 7 at work.

  2. Re:Cat, Volley Ball, Tiger by Rewind · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    More than likely. Though that is hardly rare.

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  3. Mac OS X is falling behind by Culture20 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'll bet iPhone OS doesn't have this problem.

  4. Re:Chicago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pfft the GP is overrated ...

    Whatever happened to bashing on Apple and getting flagged as funny, now its just AC this AC that, and being flagged troll troll troll?

    You rag on MS you get flagged as funny but you bash on Mac its worse then making fun of Linux/Google these days.

    That's very Unslashdot IMHO

    Go on flag me as Offtopic, but don't think for a second I can't see whats happening here .... All you geeks have gone and bought yourselves iPhones! Shame on you!

    -jcr