3 ms·

Backbones seem to be mostly fine. Well, I've got my /48 from Hurricane Electric and had no serious problems except for minor disturbance with my Nokia N900, whi

Backbones seem to be mostly fine. Well, I've got my /48 from Hurricane Electric and had no serious problems except for minor disturbance with my Nokia N900, which needed custom kernel (weirdly, official one has no IPv6 support). Except that IPv6 space is too empty. There's nothing much out there — Google, Debian & Ubuntu mirrors, Python docs... that's almost all I've noticed to use over IPv6. This is the reason nor ISPs nor users go v6, even those who can. And, on the other side, almost no hosting providers give v6 addresses to their customers, so almost no websites appear at v6 Internet. I believe this is the most important problem: there's really almost nothing to do with IPv6 nowadays. IANA should really encourage LIRs to get v6 blocks, but they're not doing it at all.

lenni 16y ago
Is there anything I as a consumer (and private website admin) can do to help IPv6 along?
- caf 16y ago
  As a website admin, you can request an IPv6 address, configure your webserver to listen on it, and configure your DNS with an AAAA record for it. ie. you can make your website accessible over IPv6.
  - mgkimsal 16y ago
    I could except my hosting provider still isn't ready - apparently their data center itself isn't totally ready. I was told 3 months ago to check back in 6-9 months.
  - ay 16y ago
    However, depending on your business, you might want to be careful. At a minimum, clamp the MTU on the server to be less than 1500. There is still a fraction of clients that will be broken by this process. I run a small service which you can try on your website "right now" and see what happens, without affecting your users too much: http://testv6.stdio.be/ http://testv6.stdio.be/
jeremyw 16y ago
Worse than nothing to do is the pile of misconfigured and abandoned IPv6 endpoints/experiments. Trying to get work done with an IPv6-before-IPv4 DNS preference makes the internet _work less well_, for the time being. (This is 6mos of playing with IPv6 on Softlayer systems [well done, guys]; there's breakage on the internets.)

lenni 16y ago

Is there anything I as a consumer (and private website admin) can do to help IPv6 along?

caf 16y ago
As a website admin, you can request an IPv6 address, configure your webserver to listen on it, and configure your DNS with an AAAA record for it. ie. you can make your website accessible over IPv6.
- mgkimsal 16y ago
  I could except my hosting provider still isn't ready - apparently their data center itself isn't totally ready. I was told 3 months ago to check back in 6-9 months.
- ay 16y ago
  However, depending on your business, you might want to be careful. At a minimum, clamp the MTU on the server to be less than 1500. There is still a fraction of clients that will be broken by this process. I run a small service which you can try on your website "right now" and see what happens, without affecting your users too much: http://testv6.stdio.be/ http://testv6.stdio.be/

jeremyw 16y ago

Worse than nothing to do is the pile of misconfigured and abandoned IPv6 endpoints/experiments. Trying to get work done with an IPv6-before-IPv4 DNS preference makes the internet _work less well_, for the time being. (This is 6mos of playing with IPv6 on Softlayer systems [well done, guys]; there's breakage on the internets.)