[arin-discuss] urgency of IPv6

[Paul G. Timmins]

I also created http://www.ipv6chicken.com/ which has a comically large photo of a chicken that can help you diagnose path MTU issues. If you are on IPv6 it will show you your address.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-
> bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:49 PM
> To: Robert E. Seastrom
> Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] urgency of IPv6
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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