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
