I guess we need to remember that most customers don't visit all the sites we
network admins and WISP operators do. If Netflix, Facebook, Google and
Facebook are up, the Internet is working, and those sites are unlikely to
have IPv6 problems (or if they do, the whole world goes off the rails).
Business customers are a different matter, but we probably don't mind
digging into a weird IPv4/IPv6 problem for a business customer even if only
to explain it ain't our fault.
You'd think smartphones would be conditioning people to take it in stride
when website problems occur. I know I am constantly getting "Aw, Snap" and
"Rats! WebGL hit a snag" errors from the Chrome browser on my phone, I
assume due to ads and tracking, and honestly the Android messages have
stopped being cute. But I guess people still aren't de-sensitized to web
browsing errors, to just try again in an hour or something, or to clear the
error and reload.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stewart
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Dual Stack Gripe/worry
I rarely run across issues when IPv6 is down at a site and iPv4 isn't ..
been running dual stack at home since 2008 or so...
Not saying it's perfect but just have very few issues....
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Burke
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:46 PM
To: Animal Farm <[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] Dual Stack Gripe/worry
I'm dual stacked at home, but it seems like I run into this issue about once
a week. Content hosts need to do the same monitoring of their IPv6 services
as their IPv4 Services. Many times the IPv6 site will break while the IPV4
site is fine. Like right now, www.icontact.com is working from a V4 only
box, but not a V4/v6 box, some sort of security certificate problem. To a
customer In a Dual stack environment, that = 'Your service isn't letting me
view that site' (or as the wife yells down the stairs, The internet is down
because this 1 site won't load) I can see this only multiplying headaches
as dual stack is rolled out across the network. People who are already
doing widespread Dual Stack, do you run into these issues? If so, how do
you solve them. Disable V6 on a problem box? That kinda defeats the point
then doesn't it.
