World IPv6 Launch Day - June 6, 2012

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Shumon Huque <shuque at isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:17:40PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> Another very sad thing about it:
>>> 
>>> delong-dhcp202:owen (9) ~ % host www.worldipv6launch.org                   2012/01/16 21:24:21
>>> www.worldipv6launch.org is an alias for www.worldipv6launch.org.edgesuite.net.
>>> www.worldipv6launch.org.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1448.b.akamai.net.
>>> a1448.b.akamai.net has address 72.246.53.104
>>> a1448.b.akamai.net has address 72.246.53.8
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't seem to be able to get to the site on IPv6.
>>> 
>>> Owen
>> 
>> I heard that it initially had AAAA records. After the site
>> couldn't keep up with the initial load, it was migrated to
>> Akamai's CDN (the DNS records you see now are those), and
>> Akamai doesn't yet offer IPv6 in production, so no IPv6.
> 
> there are places in this world with working v6 at scale.... the folk
> involved COULD use them.
> (I thought, actually, that akamai's v6 offering was actually
> production, just not wide-spread?)
> 

In fairness, it is up on IPv6 today. I don't know exactly when that
happened, but, kudos to ISOC and Akamai for getting it done
fairly quickly.

>> Akamai does have a trial IPv6 program though - we host IPv6
>> capable Akamai nodes on our campus for example, and a non
>> production version of our university website is using it -
>> so ISOC could try seeing if they could be hosted on that
>> infrastructure.
> 
> My question is when is FiOS going to get v6 natively? could we get the
> engineers there to actually do something as opposed to trials of
> non-production systems that'll never actually get deployed? :)
> 

My understanding is that some areas have native IPv6 on FIOS.

Owen