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US IPv6 Usage Grows To 3 Million Users

Posted by samzenpus on from the growing-and-growing dept.

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."'"

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  1. IPV6 on AT&T Residential DSL by arnoldo.j.nunez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As of June 2012, I noticed I had an IPV6 IP address. The MAC address of my wireless card was used in the actual IPV6 address itself. However, I am not sure what I can really do with this. The IPV6 address is more cumbersome to remember. Can I reasonably expect any tangible benefits as a guy who doesn't really do much IT related activities (i.e. web surfing, email, etc.)?

    1. Re:IPV6 on AT&T Residential DSL by bbn · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm not quite sure what happens for internal traffic if you have multiple routers on a single subnet. Maybe you'll end up sending packets to whichever one responds to NDP first?

      No this is well defined. Your computer will record all the NDP replies and put them in a list. It will then pick the first one in the list and stay with that one until it fails. If it fails it will move to the next entry in the list.

      IPv6 has active monitoring of peers. If 30 seconds passes without any inbound traffic from the selected peer it will send three probes. If the probes goes unanswered the peer has failed and your computer goes to the next entry in the list.

      This means having multiple routers "just works". With IPv4 having more than one router requires advanced setup of the routers and basic home routers simply can't do it. With IPv6 you just connect multiple routers and its done. Your computer will select one of them. If your current selected router fails, your computer will move on to the other within approximately 30 seconds. It even works if the two routers are from different ISPs.

  2. Yet Slashdot remains IPv6 Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slashdot has no IPv6. Boo, hiss. Some nerd website you are.

    host www.slashdot.org
    www.slashdot.org has address 216.34.181.48

  3. While only ~1% of top websites are IPv6 capable by hackertarget · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I did this analysis of the Alexa Top 1 million before World IPv6 day.
    * 1.1% of sites in the top 1 million had AAAA records
    * Only 4 of the top 50 tech companies websites were IPv6 capable

    http://hackertarget.com/ipv6-in-top-sites-infographic/

    Post World IPv6 day version to be released soon.

  4. Blacklisted IPv4 addresses by sandytaru · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We recently had to move a client over to IPv6 faster than intended because we couldn't get a block of clean IPv4 static addresses from the ISP. That problem is only going to get worse over time.

    --
    Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
  5. NAT is evil by hokeyru · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Widespread acceptance of NAT subverts the egalitarian premise of the internet, that all nodes are created equal, and promotes a two-tier system: providers and consumers.