[v6test] 2008-02-11 status update

[Kevin Day]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Thilo Schulz wrote:

>> Is there any other data that anyone here is interested in having me
>> try to collect?
>
> It may be interesting to see how many NS queries on your nameservers  
> come in
> via IPv6. I realize that due to the hierarchic structure of the DNS  
> system
> many v6 users even will encounter a nameserver somewhere in the  
> chain that
> does its queries via v4. Nevertheless, in a pure v6 network of the  
> future
> this is not an option anymore, and quite recently some DNS root  
> servers have
> been equipped with v6 records.
>

I would love to do something like this, but as of right now our DNS  
infrastructure isn't v6 capable yet. I'm working on that, but I'm not  
sure I'll have it ready in time for this experiment.

> Another thing that could be collected would be the referrers from  
> the browsers
> that will allow a conclusion, to some degree, of how much of a  
> technical
> background the visiting user has.
> I.e. users coming from slashdot are probably much more likely to  
> have IPv6
> configured than John Doe coming in via a link from his local news  
> paper's
> website.

As for referrers, it is being logged with the web server logs, but I  
need to figure out a way of being able to publish them without  
sacrificing anonymity. Saying we got a user coming in from http://www.slashdot.org 
  doesn't really tell anyone anything, but if I say I had a referrer  
from http://webmail.thiloschulz.de (just a made up example) it's going  
to pretty much give away that you were on our site. I could publish  
the top 100 referrers, but even then I'd probably need to go through  
them manually to make sure there were no unintended privacy leaks, and  
I hate publishing what's supposed to be unbiased data if I've manually  
removed parts of it. :)

Because of the nature of the content on the site, I'm being extremely  
careful not to accidentally leak any private information, so I need to  
think about that some more.

-- Kevin