World IPv6 Launch Day

[theevilsharpie]

So a bunch of public websites have added AAAA records for their domains. If you have a connection to the IPv6 Internet, effective today, you'll use it to access Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and a bunch of other sites (full list here). They did this last year for a day, but this time around, the AAAA records will stay up.

So far, everything seems to be working smoothly (except for Microsoft, poor guys 😛). Youtube seems to be a bit faster than normal.

Anyone else on board?

 

[theevilsharpie]

Wikipedia wasn't listed as a participant, but looks like they hopped on the bandwagon at the last minute :thumbsup:

Microsoft's site still doesn't work 😵 Maybe they should ask Google or Facebook for help setting up their network.

BTW....

$ ping6 www.anandtech.com
unknown host

$ ping6 anandtech.com
unknown host

You're lagging, Anandtech

 

[mammador]

It won't be a while until it's universally adopted.

Too much CAPEX is required for firms to upgrade at a shot. Most likely, it will be via dual stack or maybe tunneling for small scale applications. Even still, whilst it's required, the new protocol needs to reduce the number of available hosts per subnet. There are 65,000 odd subnets per orgnisation, with about 4 billion nodes in each. 😕

 

[m1ldslide1]

When I was working at a university, we were IPv6 peering with the Internet years ago. At that time there were about 3000 prefixes in the table, so obviously not a lot of traction. Only our CS department had a AAAA server stood up with v6 to the desktop. Everyone else was still IPv4 - too much work to add v6 support on the local subnets (including OSPFv3, DHCPv6, etc) with no real benefit.

...But its still cool!

 

[theevilsharpie]

It won't be a while until it's universally adopted. Too much CAPEX is required for firms to upgrade at a shot.

IPv6 has been in the works since the mid-90's, and hasn't really undergone any major changes since the early-00's. In addition, all enterprise networking players that I know of support IPv6 in everything except their ultra low-end consumer/soho lines, and have for a while. Unless corps are running positively ancient equipment, they should be ready for IPv6 at this point, at least at the infrastructure level.

In-house software and embedded devices are a different story, but they always lag behind.

Even still, whilst it's required, the new protocol needs to reduce the number of available hosts per subnet. There are 65,000 odd subnets per orgnisation, with about 4 billion nodes in each. 😕

The large size of end-user networks is intentional, as using smaller subnets would break the ability to MAC addresses for automatic addressing.

 

[Pheran]

IPv6 has been in the works since the mid-90's, and hasn't really undergone any major changes since the early-00's. In addition, all enterprise networking players that I know of support IPv6 in everything except their ultra low-end consumer/soho lines, and have for a while. Unless corps are running positively ancient equipment, they should be ready for IPv6 at this point, at least at the infrastructure level.

This just isn't true. They might support basic IPv6 forwarding, but I can tell you from personal experience that IPv6 feature parity is still a joke. We have very modern reasonably high-end Cisco routers that still don't have the support we need to operate our anycast DNS infrastructure over v6. That code isn't expected until 2013. IPv6 has been a debacle for a long time and it still is in many areas.