[v6test] Another last minute update

[kevin Day]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Llarian wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Koos van den Hout wrote:
>> I am really really interested in the research in DNS issues. Will  
>> putting
>> AAAA records in the DNS for 'main' resources cause troubles. All  
>> those
>> .ipv6. names are nice, but for real adaptation of IPv6 it would work
>> best if there wasn't an http://ipv6.google.com/ but just an AAAA  
>> record
>> for www.google.com. Yes, I can imagine several very good reasons for
>> google to not take this step yet.
>
> Absolutely agreed.  I've been silently adding more and more AAAA  
> records
> for existing A records as I add v6 bindings for them.  One thing I  
> have
> found is that its very seamless for me as I switch from v4 and v6  
> enabled
> workstations.  However, I tend to always have v6 available in most  
> of the
> places I'm typically using my machines, and I don't run Vista, which  
> I'm
> told causes a majority of the problems.  Its a pity I can't get any  
> real
> information for how many users attempted to connect to an AAAA without
> having v6 network access.


This is a few months out of date, but this is the data that inspired  
me to do all of this to start with...

http://www.your.org/v6clients.png

The methodology was to put two 1x1 pixel invisible .gif images on a  
very high traffic (non-technical audience) website. One was accessible  
only through a v4 A record, and the other had both v4 and v6 AAAA.  
Extrapolating the difference between how many successful loads there  
were gave me that.

-- Kevin