IPv6 Day Started
IPv6 day officially started at midnight GMT. Over the next 24 hrs, a number of large web sites will be reachable via IPv6. For example Google, Yahoo and Facebook added AAAA records.
You can check yourself if you are able to receive the AAAA records with this nslookup command:
nslookup > set type=AAAA > www.facebook.com Non-authoritative answer: www.facebook.com has AAAA address 2620::1c08:4000:face:b00c:0:2
The next 24 hrs bring a unique opportunity to test IPv6 and to experiment with it. I recommend that you setup at least a test system and attempt to connect to IPv6 via a tunnelbroker. You may also be able to use auto-configured 6-to-4 but it tends to be less reliable. See the end of this article for a number of free tunnel brokers.
Things to test:
- ping Google: on unix, use ping6 www.google.com, on Windows, ping -6 www.google.com
- measure latency via IPv4 and IPv6 and compare.
- test if you can reach various IPv6 sites (http://isc.sans.edu has been dual stack for a while now)
- can you detect the traffic with whatever tools you use (snort, tcpdump, windump, wireshark...)
More information about IPv6 day:
http://ipv6day.org
Tunnelbrokers:
http://www.ipv6day.org/action.php?n=En.GetConnected-TB
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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Comments
Scott H.
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
Dual-stacked and working like charm. If your ISP is not supporting ipv6 tunnel and get the experience :)
sigey
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
My hardware is IPv6 ready, but I turned it off everywhere. I see no need for IPv6 now.
alibert
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
Y2K was Hype, because doing nothing was actually an acceptable solution for most people.
IPv6 is required, and it will have a major technical impact. Agreed, users should not see anything.
For myself, I connected using my Apple Airport with Hurricane Electric, it was a cinch.
Will be integrating my tunnel broker into the Fortigate soon, with a migration on home network.
Louis
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
GJB
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
isc.sans.edu has address 66.35.45.157
isc.sans.edu has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f11:e4b::50
Just the link at the bottom for the IPv6 test isn't quite right. It should point to
http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php?url=isc.sans.edu
(or maybe the test site is overloaded today)
Dr. J
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
GJB
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
KBR
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
kelleigh2
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago
bonsaiviking
Jun 8th 2011
1 decade ago