Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

Wed Nov 28 04:38:24 UTC 2012

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, mike wrote:

> You're saying there are no cellular v6 deployments? I'm about 99% 
> certain that you're wrong. I see v6 addresses in my apache logs all the 
> time and they're almost definitely while they're not on wifi (my site 
> uploads gps data while people are skiing, so they're usually on 
> cellular).

I am in Europe. None of Apple och Microsoft mobile devices will do IPv6 on 
the mobile side. I don't know if they do special versions for the US 
market, but for general 3GPP networks, it doesn't work.

> Is this the app's fault? What are they doing wrong?

They try to detect if there is Internet connectivity and check only IPv4, 
they use IPv4 literals and other things. I am not an app developer, I do 
networking, and when I connect IPv6 only to Android or Windows, a lot of 
things stop working. I haven't tried iPhone but I would believe the 
situation is similar there.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se