I'm seeing like 2x traffic in Canada at my server compared to IPv4. Even when the net speed is roughly half.
IPv6: (Net Speed: 100mbit) [image: Inline image 1] IPv4: (Net Speed: 250mbit) [image: Inline image 2] But granted there are only 13 IPv6 servers in the CA zone. Thanks, -- James Hartig Software Engineer @ Grooveshark.com http://twitter.com/jameshartig On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess we would indeed see notable increase in traffic if we enabled > the IPv6 also for other than 2.* names. > > Btw. Why is pool still in this old “only minorities are offered > IPv6”-thinking? > > Nowadays all even close modern Linux distributions along with W7, W8 and > OS X are pretty well configured and protected, even for case of > non-functional IPv6 network. And AAAA records have been there for ages, so > if some vendor hasn’t really ignored them if necessary, it would be really > weird. Not to forget that for many of the clients failing NTP-query is by > no means fatal. Unless there is some ntpd server side reason I’m having > hard time understanding current configuration. > > If it was up to me, I would maximum go and leave some legacy name for > people who get itchy or have some exotic equipment for the IPv6. Probably I > would just enable it for all, even more complex wide spread services (some > even commercial!) have now v6 on by default. > > -- > Markku Miettinen > > *From:* Ask Bjørn Hansen > *Sent:* March 12, 2013 7:41 PM > *To:* Brian Rak > *CC:* <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 11:00, Brian Rak wrote: > > Do you have any stats about what kind of IPv6 traffic the pool sees? > > I started making a program to track the NTP traffic last fall, but I > didn't get too far. > > > I'd guess 1/50 to 1/200th of the IPv4 traffic. > > Looking at my one v6 enabled NTP server I see only a tiny amount of v6 > traffic. > > > Some years ago I made a javascript widget to test how many end-users had > IPv6 support (the widget is on the NTP Pool site and a few other sites I'm > involved with); it says adaptation is up to about 4%. > http://www.v6test.develooper.com/statistics > > For servers it's probably a bit more, but on the small appliances and such > that use the NTP Pool it's probably lower, so as a ballpark estimate we can > go with 4% on the high side. Google says it's much lower: > http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html > > Currently only people asking for 2.* (2.pool.ntp.org, > 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org, etc) even has the option of getting an AAAA > record, so that probably makes it down to 1/3 to 1/6th of the regular > traffic, too. > > > Ask > > -- > Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool > > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool >
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