Comcast's IPv6 Information Site Unreachable

Mon Jul 2 02:20:11 UTC 2012

On 7/1/12, Derek Ivey <derek at derekivey.com> wrote:
> Anyone else having trouble getting to Comcast's IPv6 Information site?
> It appears to be unreachable over IPv6.

Looks like just ICMP that's broken.

 ~# telnet comcast6.net 80
Trying 2001:558:fe23:2:69:252:208:135...
Connected to comcast6.net (2001:558:fe23:2:69:252:208:135).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: comcast6.net
User-Agent: Telnet

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:21:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
Set-Cookie: 1a3c31c9847a772452af472ce0afd5f3=5hcm2m506se424huah4eo5lvo7; path=/
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Connection closed by foreign host.

 ~# ping6 comcast6.net
PING comcast6.net(speedlab-app05.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net)
56 data bytes
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=0
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=1
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=2
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=3
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=4
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=5
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=6
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited
>From te-4-1-ur01.newcastlerdc.de.panjde.comcast.net icmp_seq=7
Destination unreachable: Administratively prohibited

--- comcast6.net ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, +8 errors, 100% packet loss, time 6999ms