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IPv6 - World IPv6 Launch Day nears!

I emailed them about it a couple days ago:

I just think you're dealing with a front line support person who has no idea what's going on with the OOL network, other than what's on the script in front of them.

I don't think it's a reflection of what's under development.

reply to SHoTTa35
When are you rolling out IPv6 on your work network?

reply to SHoTTa35

Oh, it's definitely here.

$ dig www.facebook.com any
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.facebook.com. 110 IN A 66.220.149.88
www.facebook.com. 70 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:10:1f02:face:b00c::25

"face:b00c" : cute

$ dig www.l.google.com any
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.105
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.99
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.103
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.147
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.104
www.l.google.com. 123 IN A 74.125.131.106
www.l.google.com. 287 IN AAAA 2607:f8b0:4002:801::1013

$ ping imap.gmail.com
PING gmail-imap.l.google.com (173.194.68.108): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.68.108: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=23.169 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.68.108: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=24.446 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.68.108: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=24.957 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.68.108: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=23.990 ms
^C
--- gmail-imap.l.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 23.169/24.140/24.957/0.657 ms

And now, for the total maximization of IP-envy:

$ ping6 imap.gmail.com
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:48XX:XXX:XX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX --> 2001:4860:800a::6d
16 bytes from 2001:4860:800a::6d, icmp_seq=0 hlim=51 time=31.569 ms
16 bytes from 2001:4860:800a::6d, icmp_seq=1 hlim=51 time=29.613 ms
16 bytes from 2001:4860:800a::6d, icmp_seq=2 hlim=51 time=30.060 ms
16 bytes from 2001:4860:800a::6d, icmp_seq=3 hlim=51 time=33.781 ms
^C
--- gmail-imap.l.google.com ping6 statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 29.613/31.256/33.781/1.628 ms

And yeah, bitches, that ain't no stinkin' tunnel, it's HERE for ME, ya'all listen: me me me me me me meeeeeee!

reply to cablewizzard

Re: IPv6 - World IPv6 Launch Day nears!

Before any isp or any large corporation roles out ip6 on their networks, not including web servers, many security problems with ip6 have to be worked out. Till then enjoy ip4 it's not like ip6 is going to give you any extra speed. The latest and greatest in this case will not be the best for some time to come.

reply to SHoTTa35

Re: IPv6 - World IPv6 Launch Day nears!

reply to SHoTTa35
Well, it is June 6... my OOL is still working. I guess OOL did something right.

reply to SHoTTa35
Why should any of us care about IPv6? As an end user, what benefit would I get?

@Brad - I know anyone can do 6to4. I even had a tunnel setup with HE using DD-WRT before. My Linksys E4200 router's default firmware supports IPv6 in Native form and 6RD and the other to setup tunnels. I'm not using any of those at the moment so that's why I was shocked to see 6to4 running. I wasn't even using the router. Can Windows do it automatically? I know it uses Toredo to tunnel but that's not even a good way to do it. The network stats showed No IPV6 addresses (in Windows) but it was happily connecting to IPv6 sites so that's why I checked and saw 6to4 being used.

@A non - there is no real benefit just yet to end users. You will eventually need to have it as some websites will (yrs and yrs from now) only have IPv6 address so if you don't have one you can't reach it so easily. The other "benefits" depends on you as a user and how technical you are. NAT is a network limiting problem so with IPv6, that's gone and networking can become more straight forward. There are some obvious risks to that as well.

Fact is, we will all eventually need to get an IPv6 address as IPv4 addresses are running out, it is still a finite number and with more people having multiple devices, there wont be enough for the 7Billion people on the planet (currently only 2.8 Billion are connected with more being added all the time).

reply to A non

Re: IPv6 - World IPv6 Launch Day nears!

reply to SHoTTa35
Anyway...

Before Cablevision can even start transitioning to IPv6, I thought their CMTSs had to support some sort of IPv6 implementation. I've read that Cisco is dragging its feet with providing updates or are forcing ISPs to buy new CMTSs in order to support IPv6. This explains why Comcast started their rollout with their Arris terminated regions and according to posts in their forum, has pushed their Cisco IPv6 rollout to 2013.

I looked up the CMTS my modem terminates to and it is made by Cisco.

Cisco here at home and work too so no IPv6 for us for a while at least!