[135674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: test-ipv6.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Jan 27 19:16:59 2011
To: jfesler@gigo.com
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:08:43 -0800."
<alpine.BSF.2.00.1101271448000.15852@goat.gigo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:16:32 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101271448000.15852@goat.gigo.com>, Jason Fesler wr
ites:
> Several people have suggested I (re)post information about test-ipv6.com
> here.
>
> http://test-ipv6.com ..
> tests ipv4 and ipv6 by dns name
> tests dual stack (will the client break on World IPv6 Day?)
> tests ipv6 by IP literal (teredo can pass this)
> gives advice to end user about current status and (depending on
> circumstances) more information
> "broken" users (can't connect to dual stack) are solicited for info
> Caution: does depend on javascript.
>
> http://test-ipv6.com/simple_test.html
> Eyeball test only for user, with instructions; no javascript required.
>
> Please direct any comments, flames, etc directly to me instead of the
> list. I've added enough noise already :-)
Note you can have totally broken IPv6 connectivity and still be
fine on World IPv6 day. You just need applications with good
multi-homing support. No web site can check this for you.
If you are a application developer and want TCP example code that
will work well with a broken IPv6 connection have a look at my blog.
http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-server-over-tcp
Mark
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