Why no IPv6-only day (Was: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling protocol)
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Mon Jun 6 21:23:24 UTC 2011
In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106060732190.68892 at goat.gigo.com>, Jason Fesler wr
ites:
> > But anyway, just consider it: a portion of the major websites go
> > IPv6-only for 24 hours. What happens is that well, 99% of the populace
> > can't reach them anymore, as the known ones are down, they start calling
> > and thus overloading the helpdesks of their ISPs.
>
> Won't happen this year or next. Too much money at stake for the web
> sites. Only when IPv4 is single digits or less could this be even
> remotely considered. Even the 0.05% hit for a day was controverial at
> $dayjob.
IPv4 will never reach those figures. IPv6 isn't preferenced enough for
that to happen and IPv6-only sites have methods of reaching IPv4 only
sites (DS-Lite, NAT64/DNS64).
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