AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

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Hi.

The main objective for today is to access the web services, that's why you
can't reach a AAAA record for a DNS query for a given NS server.

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.google.com aaaa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40029
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 532907 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com. 150 IN AAAA 2001:4860:4002:802::1010

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.yahoo.com aaaa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.yahoo.com. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.yahoo.com. 284 IN CNAME fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f00c:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f011:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f011:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f00d:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 6 IN AAAA 2001:4998:f00c:1fe::3000
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.facebook.com aaaa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12079
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.facebook.com. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com. 8 IN AAAA 2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:1

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> www.unam.mx aaaa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42381
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.unam.mx. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.unam.mx. 6031 IN AAAA 2001:1218:1:6:d685:64ff:fec4:720b

You see? there's a lot of IPv6 activity since a few weeks ago. xD

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The main objective for today is to access the web services, that's why you
can't reach a AAAA record for a DNS query for a given NS server.

So if there are no AAAA records from where we ftp6 the HOSTSV6.TXT file ?

-J

3

Hi.

The main objective for today is to access the web services, that's why you
can't reach a AAAA record for a DNS query for a given NS server.

exactly - this site provides a nice service snapshot:

http://www.mrp.net/IPv6Day.html

4

http://www.mrp.net/IPv6Day.html

The web access column reflects access to internal content or just the
home page ?

-J

5

http://www.mrp.net/IPv6Day.html

The web access column reflects access to internal content or just the
home page ?

Mark's notes explain what he tested and clicking on any link shows
the result of his diagnostics:

http://www.mrp.net//IPv6Day_files/diagnostics/aol.com.html

guessing he didn't do depth probes. Maybe you want to set something up?

- Lucy

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http://www.mrp.net/IPv6Day.html

The web access column reflects access to internal content or just the
home page ?

Mark's notes explain what he tested and clicking on any link shows
the result of his diagnostics:

http://www.mrp.net//IPv6Day_files/diagnostics/aol.com.html

guessing he didn't do depth probes. Maybe you want to set something up?

Thanks for the follow up. I noticed that the test only looks for the
html survey file. Just curious since other folks reported that some
content providers are serving the home page via IPv6 but other content
goes via IPv4. Still surprised that Akamai's numbers feel very low,
300+ hits per sec (worldwide) for one of the major CDN is not that
much IHMO, we really need more IPv6 eye-balls connecting.

-J

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them on their nameservers....

http://www.mrp.net/IPv6Day.html

The web access column reflects access to internal content or just the

home page ?

Mark's notes explain what he tested and clicking on any link shows the

result of his diagnostics:

http://www.mrp.net//IPv6Day_files/diagnostics/aol.com.html

guessing he didn't do depth probes. Maybe you want to set something

up?

Thanks for the follow up. I noticed that the test only looks for the
html survey file. Just curious since other folks reported that some
content providers are serving the home page via IPv6 but other content
goes via IPv4. Still surprised that Akamai's numbers feel very low,
300+ hits per sec (worldwide) for one of the major CDN is not that
much IHMO, we really need more IPv6 eye-balls connecting.

-J

...yes, there is a serious lack of v6 enabled eyeballs. But it's also
not clear to me from Akamai's stats just how many of the sites they host
are v6 enabled. 2? 12? 500?

--heather

8

...yes, there is a serious lack of v6 enabled eyeballs. But it's also
not clear to me from Akamai's stats just how many of the sites they host
are v6 enabled. 2? 12? 500?

True. I'll go back to their site and dig for more detailed info about
what those "hits" are actually hitting.

Regards
Jorge

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...yes, there is a serious lack of v6 enabled eyeballs. But it's also
not clear to me from Akamai's stats just how many of the sites they host
are v6 enabled. 2? 12? 500?

I remember it being stated that ~40 of their customers would
participate in Wv6 Day, but I obviously don't speak for Akamai and I
can't find a pointer to that info now...

~Chris