[menog] World IPv6 Day observations from Middle East

[Richard Barnes]

What happens if you go to www.google.com?  You should be seeing a AAAA
for that as well.
--Richard

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Bilal Alsabbagh <bilal at nxme.net> wrote:
> Interesting. Because here the ipv6.google.com recognizes that we are coming
> from Saudi Arabian IPv6 network. Although the local is not in Arabic but
> there is a "Go to Google Saudi Arabia" link on the page.
> Regards,
> Bilal
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here are a few World IPv6 Day observations.
>
> Arabic localizations for Google, Yahoo and Bing are not working today if I
> run an IPv6 connection. Google thinks I am in Holland, Bing thinks I am in
> Canada and Yahoo doesn't default to the maktoob.yahoo.com portal used in the
> Arab world. This could be explained that I am on a public IPv6 address that
> uses the Freenet6 IPv6 server in Amsterdam and a Canadian ISP assigned block
> of IPv6 addresses.
>
> This means Middle East ISPs should give IPv6 access to their subscribers
> over their own IPv6 assigned address blocks to get web page localizations to
> work.
>
> Otherwise things are running smoothly as standard pings to the regular
> web'pages of Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, CNN and Google are all defaulting to
> IPv6 addresses and responses without the brute force of "ping -6". And
> running in IPv4 only mode has no issues as well.
>
> All the best,
> -Ahmed
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