On Jun 8, 2011, at 3:19 AM, 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.
>  
I suspect that is almost certainly the reason.
> 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.
>  
Ideally, yes.

> 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.

Good to know.

Owen

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