On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Shumon Huque <shu...@isc.upenn.edu> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:17:40PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Another very sad thing about it: >>> >>> delong-dhcp202:owen (9) ~ % host www.worldipv6launch.org >>> 2012/01/16 21:24:21 >>> www.worldipv6launch.org is an alias for >>> www.worldipv6launch.org.edgesuite.net. >>> www.worldipv6launch.org.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1448.b.akamai.net. >>> a1448.b.akamai.net has address 72.246.53.104 >>> a1448.b.akamai.net has address 72.246.53.8 >>> >>> >>> I don't seem to be able to get to the site on IPv6. >>> >>> Owen >> >> I heard that it initially had AAAA records. After the site >> couldn't keep up with the initial load, it was migrated to >> Akamai's CDN (the DNS records you see now are those), and >> Akamai doesn't yet offer IPv6 in production, so no IPv6. > > there are places in this world with working v6 at scale.... the folk > involved COULD use them. > (I thought, actually, that akamai's v6 offering was actually > production, just not wide-spread?) >
In fairness, it is up on IPv6 today. I don't know exactly when that happened, but, kudos to ISOC and Akamai for getting it done fairly quickly. >> Akamai does have a trial IPv6 program though - we host IPv6 >> capable Akamai nodes on our campus for example, and a non >> production version of our university website is using it - >> so ISOC could try seeing if they could be hosted on that >> infrastructure. > > My question is when is FiOS going to get v6 natively? could we get the > engineers there to actually do something as opposed to trials of > non-production systems that'll never actually get deployed? :) > My understanding is that some areas have native IPv6 on FIOS. Owen
