v6 proof of life

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Tue Jun 7 03:50:37 UTC 2011


On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:

>>>>>> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:56:32 +0000, Paul Vixie <vixie at isc.org> said:
> 
> PV> it's been a while since i looked at the query stream still hitting
> PV> importantly and happily, there's a great deal of IPv6 happening
> PV> here.
> 
> Which is reaffirming what many have said for a while: it'll be the
> server-to-server traffic that will first peak.  It's just going to take
> the client-server relationships years to catch up.  Every time I look at
> my maillogs I've found there is quite a bit of v6 happening.  But the
> web logs show almost nothing.

There was some additional research done by Geoff Houston indicating that if you exposed tunnel capable hosts (that were able to reach IPv6 literals) you had something closer to 20% IPv6 connectivity.

I'm already excited about traffic levels and patterns in less than 24 hours.  Will be interesting to observe.

- Jared

See if you can reach this even if you don't have native IPv6…

http://[2001:418:3f4::5]/



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