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If you use comcast they have enabled IPv6 support (I believe they give you an ip of some sort)

not yet, only in a few cities for a few customers that are in their test program.

Boston here, they enabled a 6to4 for us. We don't have a public v6 address, but we can use the ipv6-ternet.

Google and all Google properties were down in central North Carolina for about 15 minutes just now: confirmed by others in this area on totally different ISPs. I wonder if it's related...

They were down in suburban Philadelphia, too.

Seemed to be down in NYC. Actually, I think it might have been a browser issue.

Chrome worked. Firefox did not. I think chrome was falling back to IPv4. Tried a few wgets ... some versions correctly falled back to ipv4 (cygwin). A friend's wgets (not sure which distro) kept trying v6 addresses.

When I used dig to get the AAAA record, I only saw 1 address for google. What gives? Surely there are more than 1 addresses ... I thought dig would show them all. It does that for AA records. I'm very confused.

This is because there was one IPv6 address in the DNS reply. Search for "happy eyeballs" for the overall description of why. In short - If your IPv6 went dead and you'd have more than one IPv6 addr in the reply, you'd get bored until you reach the IPv4 addresses.

Isn't it great that it's IPv6 day already and most consumer ISPs haven't even tried to offer IPv6 support.

Set up a tunnel and get some yourself. ISP don't have to -- y et. Maybe soon the situation will change. It's important to get the word out.

For the life of me, I have no idea what this is about. It was a BBC headline here in the UK but there is absolutely no interest from anyone in the UK at all. No ISP focus, nothing.

I would rather like IPv6 but I don't know why.

(I do understand OSI model, IPv6 thoroughly, played with 6to4 and my Windows 7 boxes talk to each other with v6 etc but I just don't get IPv6 day).

Today, big Internet portals are supposed to resolve to AAAA (IPv6) DNS queries in their main site. Thus, if your computer is enabled, it should try to access it using IPv6. It's also a good chance to see if AAAA responses to any machine (IPv6 or not) would cause any trouble in their OS or applications.

It's also some type of marketing to make the crowd aware about it. Many companies may have started on IPv6 because there was a day dedicated to test it.

Thank you - I am now enlightened.

Seeing how much the world would end if the content providers would have lit up AAAAs.

They lit up AAAAs. The world did not notice. So it is a huge success.

Yes, can we leave it on please!

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