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World IPv6 Day On June 8

Posted by timothy on from the be-sure-to-straighten-your-cables dept.

dkd903 writes "On June 8, 2011, around 300 websites will test the IPv6 readiness of the internet. The participating websites includes Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing. In preparation for the day, Google is notifying users to test if they are ready."

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  1. Re:Where is the Google test? by gnick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try here.
    Or, for more info on test day, Try here.

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  2. Re:Where is the Google test? by 3.1415926535 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Safari, for example, had a bug until recently that caused page loads to fail if the site has an IPv6 address but the client doesn't have connectivity. In addition, there are a bunch of autoconfigured tunnel technologies that can cause problems. See, for example, APNIC's chief scientist's report on Teredo: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

  3. Cogent is ruining it by bahamat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    World IPv6 day is unfortunately DOA due to Cogent being a bunch of jackasses and not allowing certain peering arrangements. There are unfortunately two IPv6 Internets. One of people who use Cogent and one for everyone else.

    Google, Yahoo! and Hurricane Electric, as well as many other sites are all on Cogent's "no peer with you" list. If you're a Cogent customer you should get on the phone.

    1. Re:Cogent is ruining it by Agent+Green · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think it's a matter of Cogent trying to strongarm its position. It wouldn't be the first time Cogent has done this and it certainly won't be the last. Doing a Google search for "peering dispute", and not including Comcast (to exclude the Comcast vs. Level3 dispute since it's newer and ongoing), almost every old entry involves Cogent duking it out with someone. They win customers on price, but things seem to be lopsided enough that they get into a scuffle with a number of the other Tier-1 providers.

      Mike from HE spells it out pretty clearly from almost 2 years ago on the NANOG list:

      http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01006.html

      I have no reason to think that their stance has changed any.

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  4. Re:Where is the Google test? by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because if the client and server both have IPv6 connectivity, many clients will connect by IPv6. As they should. The problem is that just because both have connectivity doesn't mean they have connectivity to each other - the IPv6 part of the internet is still being configured, by admins largely unfamiliar with the new technology and on hardware with had support added as an afterthought. It'll get better, but right now there are still many links that have problems. The IPv4 side has a few too, but it's had a decade for engineers to fix almost all of them.