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What Google seems to be testing is whether you will be able to connect to a site that is served by both IPv4 and IPv6 (i.e. A and AAAA DNS records). I believe
by mauriciob 15y ago
What Google seems to be testing is whether you will be able to connect to a site that is served by both IPv4 and IPv6 (i.e. A and AAAA DNS records).
I believe their message is incorrect. It should be "Your system is not using IPv6 connection by default OR you don't have it."
Also, the IPv6 is available on <random>.ds.ipv6test.google.com, which is what they use to check your conectivity.
- reidrac 15y agoThe say "You don’t have IPv6, but you shouldn’t have problems on websites that add IPv6 support", and that's incorrect. I have an IPv6 address, I have full IPv6 connectivity and actually I have IPv6 prioritized over IPv4. Honestly, I don't see how are they testing if I have an IPv6 address when their web it's not accessible using IPv6. I can be wrong, though :) Edit: OK, point for you. Although the system tries IPv6 first, may be Firefox is using IPv4 for that page because there's no IPv6 on ipv6test.google.com. But I still think it's wrong because they're doing false negatives.
- justincormack 15y agoI get "Yes, looks like you’re using IPv6 already. Welcome to the future of the Internet!" I think they are detecting via Ajax to an ipv6 only domain so the test page does not need ipv6. So it must be misdetecting you. It was being intermittent for me earlier...