IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days

Tue Sep 6 01:55:00 UTC 2011

In message <007f01cc6c37$0f4ac[email protected]>, "Frank Bulk" writes:
> A Chrome plugin alerted me to the fact that savvis.com has an AAAA for
> www.savvis.com.  Unfortunately access to that host over IPv6 is down, too.
> 
> Frank

The fault must be local to you.  Works fine from here.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:03 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down
> for 10 days
> 
> Charter.com has also remove the quad-A's for www.charter.com.  My monitoring
> system alerted me this afternoon that it couldn't get to the v6 version of
> their website.  Because of DNS caching, I don't know how many hours or days
> ago it was removed.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:59 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down
> for 10 days
> 
> I just noticed that the quad-A records for both those two hosts are now
> gone.  DNS being what it is, I'm not sure when that happened, but our
> monitoring system couldn't get the AAAA for www.qwest.com about half an hour
> ago.
> 
> Hopefully CenturyLink is actively working towards IPv6-enabling their sites
> again.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:14 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down
> for 10 days
> 
> FYI, the issue is not resolved and I've not heard from either of the
> companies suggesting that they're working on it.
> 
> Note their commitment to IPv6 in these releases:
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/centurylink-joins-internet-community
> -in-world-ipv6-day-123089908.html
> http://news.centurylink.com/index.php?s=43&item=2129
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Moyle-Croft [mailto:mmc at internode.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:08 PM
> To: Owen DeLong
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down
> for 10 days
> 
> 
> On 19/08/2011, at 4:18 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
> It'd really suck for end users to start actively avoiding IPv6 connectivity
> because it keeps breaking and for organisations that have active AAAA
> records to break peoples connectivity to their resources.
> 
> 
> 
> +1 -- I'm all for publishing AAAA records as everyone knows, but, if you
> publish AAAA records for a consumer facing service, please support and
> monitor that service with a similar level to what you do for your IPv4
> versions of the service.
> 
> The coming years are going to be difficult enough for end-users without
> adding unnecessary anti-IPv6 sentiments to the mix.
> 
> Owen
> 
> +1 to Owen's comment.
> 
> I'd also add some more comments:
> 
> A lot of eyeballs that have v6 right now are the people with a lot of clue.
> Do you want these people, who'll often be buying or recommending your
> services to rate your ability to deliver as a fail?  Our experience with
> IPv6 consumer broadband has been that the early adopters are the people who,
> well, goto IETF meetings, follow standards and ask the bloody hard
> questions.
> 
> Even given the Happy Eyeballs (Did Hurricane PAY for it to be abbrievated as
> HE?? :-) ) most end users prefer IPv6 over IPv4.  Deeply this means there is
> a tendency for v6 traffic to grow and be more important to connectivity than
> you may imagine.  The tipping point for IPv6 traffic being dominant I
> suspect is going to be a lower threshold of take up than people might
> expect.   Consider this when thinking about the level of thought you give to
> IPv6 infrastructure and PPS rates.
> 
> MMC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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