Yahoo and IPv6

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 1 11:18:07 UTC 2011


On 31 May 2011, at 22:31, Voll, Toivo wrote:

> 
> Netalyzr (http://n3.netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/analysis) finds no issues with my IPv6 status, but alerts me to the fact (since confirmed by switching to IE) that Google Chrome defaults to IPv4 rather than IPv6, and consequently a lot of the testing tools claim that my IPv6 is broken. 

I'm a little confused there - the current Chrome prefers IPv6, and also now includes code to allow fast failover to IPv4 in the event IPv6 connectivity is down/slow (300ms headstart).

I had some issues with Netalyzer detecting my dual-stack status, which the chaps there are helping with.

Tim





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