Tunneled through CITC IPv6 Tunnel Broker in Saudi Arabia. Bilal On Jun 8, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:
> Quite interesting, how are you accessing IPv6, native dual-stack or tunneled ? > > In my case it was tunneled and the termination server was in Amsterdam, hence > Google thought I was in that area and could not do proper localization. > Remember that Google.com is running dual-stack today and my web browser > prefers IPv6 connections even if they are tunneled. If ISPs use tunneling > servers locally then this localization issue will be solved and response > times will be faster. > > Regards, > -Ahmed > > > From: Bilal Alsabbagh > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:47 PM > To: Ahmed Abu-Abed > Cc: 'menog@menog. net' ; IPv6jordan > Subject: Re: [menog] World IPv6 Day observations from Middle East > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Menog mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog >
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