[menog] Rapid IPv6 deployment for World IPv6 Day

[Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo]

I kind of agree with you, but it's also understandable that people who
do not have dual stack want to play with IPv6 and be part of World
IPv6 Day.

Here is where tunnels play a big part. I have helped quite a few
people today in configuring tunnelbroker.net tunnels, miredo and 6to4.
Some of these people had *never* heard about IPv6 (yes, might be hard
to believe but it's true) before yet they were enthusiastic about the
experiment and willing to spend some of their time tweaking their OSs.

cheers!

Carlos

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:
>>    World IPv6 Day ends at 3am KSA/Jordan time June 9th.
>>
>>    To setup a computer with IPv6 public address over any IPv4 connection
>>    (3G, ADSL, dial-up, etc. and even behind nested NATs) for World IPv6
>>    Day testing then I suggest downloading the Freenet6 client and running
>>    it with default settings. Then use it to access Google, Youtube,
>>    Facebook, CNN, etc. or ping their sites.
>
> This is arguably missing the point of IPv6 day.
>
> If you want to play with a v6 tunnel client, you can do this any day.  You
> simply point your browser at http://ipv6.google.com/ or
> http://www.v6.facebook.com/ to see if it works.
>
> However, the Internet migration strategy is dual-stack. There will never be
> any requirement for users to install tunnel clients on their machines.
>
> The fundamental reason for v6 day is to encourage *content providers* to
> enable both v4 and v6 concurrently on their *well-known* URL (i.e.  return
> both AAAA and A records), and then see how many of their (non-v6) users are
> broken by doing this.  That would be users whose local v6 stack is broken,
> or who are on a network which announces v6 connectivity when it doesn't
> actually have it.
>
> So, this is what's different for v6 day:
>
> $ dig www.google.com aaaa
> ...
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.google.com.         86094   IN      CNAME   www.l.google.com.
> www.l.google.com.       218     IN      AAAA    2a00:1450:400c:c01::93
>
> Previously, you'd have got an empty response (and the client would then
> look for an A record instead).
>
> The hope is that this will give confidence to those websites to run both v4
> and v6 permanently on their main URL.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
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