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I’m curious as to why so many major sites are not working. I would expect them to be behind some kind of cloud load balancer which automatically brings IPv6?
by stingraycharles 5y ago
I’m curious as to why so many major sites are not working. I would expect them to be behind some kind of cloud load balancer which automatically brings IPv6?
- est31 5y agoThere is a ton of logging infrastructure etc. that would all have to be changed to do ipv6. And sadly, the benefit to individual users is little, as every ISP has ipv4 already. So other features get prioritized: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/348224 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/348224 Some major cloud companies also sit on giant piles of ipv4 addresses, like Amazon for example. They of course have negative incentives in ipv6 adoption, as they want their ipv4 investment, which lies in the billions, to pay off as much as possible. The ISPs on the other hand are heavily incentivized to support ipv6 because the less traffic there is via ipv4, the less load there is on their carrier grade NAT infrastructure. Furthermore, ipv6 allows for cleaner routing tables, at least that's the theory.
- nijave 5y agoMajor sites that aren't cloud providers already supported IPv4 so there's not necessarily a clear incentive to spend lots of money upgrading equipment and rolling out IPv6. Only within the last couple months did AWS announce single stack IPv6 for VPCs (i.e. cloud providers don't have a great IPv6 support story)