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US IPv6 Usage Grows To 3 Million Users
darthcamaro writes "There is a myth that IPv6 is only for those in Asia, but that's not true. According to new data discussed this week at an IETF conference, there are more IPv6 users in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world — coming in at 3 million. From the article: 'George Michaelson, senior R&D scientist at APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) has a reasonable idea of what the current levels are globally for IPv6 adoption, thanks to some statistical research he has been doing. In his view, IPv6 is now a reality in terms of adoption. "I think you're used to us standing up and saying 'woe is me, woe is me, v6 isn't happening,'" George Michaelson, senior R&D scientist at APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) said. "But it is actually happening, these are not trivial numbers of people that are now using IPv6 on a routine basis."'"
You mean to tell me that an almost-entirely text site with no unicode support is slow to adopt new standards?!
You just need to enter this into your /etc/hosts file:
2001:778:0:ffff:64::216.34.181.48 slashdot.org
Then slashdot.org is IPv6 enabled:
baldur@neaira:~$ curl -v -s http://slashdot.org/ | head ...
* About to connect() to slashdot.org port 80 (#0)
* Trying 2001:778:0:ffff:64:0:d822:b530... connected
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: slashdot.org
> Accept: */*
>
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xrds
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 100410
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:52:51 GMT
X-Varnish: 830176495 830176249
Age: 15
Connection: keep-alive