While not the primary focus of IPv6 day, I think that was an excellent and beneficial activity and I, for one, applaud you for doing so.
Owen On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Menog mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog >> > > > > -- > -- > ========================= > Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo > http://www.labs.lacnic.net > ========================= > > _______________________________________________ > Menog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog _______________________________________________ Menog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog
