[arin-discuss] urgency of IPv6

[Owen DeLong]

On Jun 29, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:

> 
> "George, Wes E IV [NTK]" <Wesley.E.George at sprint.com> writes:
> 
>> I rarely leave my sig file in postings, because I don't think it's
>> relevant, but I'm going to this time, for obvious reasons. At the
>> risk of feeding the troll, my comments inline below.
> 
> :-)
> 
>> While there is no way to go into any setting on the phone and check it's
>> IP address, someone wrote a (free) diagnostic network app you can run on
>> WM5 that DOES tell the actual number on the phone.  It IS an IPv6
>> number.   Most people probably are confused because going to
>> whatismyip.com or some such gives them an IPv4 address.
> 
> As it will with anyone.  Real honest-to-god v6 here, has been for
> years, and in fact I'm typing this into Emacs over an ssh connection
> that rides on v6 rather than v4 because when both are available that's
> how MacOSX rolls.  But whatismyip.com has no AAAA record...
> 
> Billet:~ rs$ dig +short whatismyip.com. aaaa
> Billet:~ rs$ 
> 
> So when I point my web browser there I get the outside address of my
> v4 NAT (the globally unique addresses here are reserved for lab and
> other applications.  When I go to www.ripe.net, of course I get my
> IPv6 autoconf address (hey Apple... DHCP6...  pretty please?).
> 
> Point being, this is the same problem as traceroute - people who use
> the tools without understanding the tools are doomed to be confused.
> 
> -r


FWIW, there is http://whatismyv6.com/

Which will tell you your address (v4 or v6) that you used to reach the site
and can usually be a measure of IPv6 connectivity (or not).

Owen