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Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jun 8 07:43:31 2011

From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <EMEW3|2e5caa4694d7b11074726fcd787e4b21n579WU03tjc|ecs.soton.ac.uk|08BD27A3-1750-4D69-BC00-B5C3B7397251@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:42:10 -0400
To: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jun 8, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Tim Chown wrote:

>=20
> On 8 Jun 2011, at 04:46, Jared Mauch wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> We have seen a traffic increase but nothing like what I was =
expecting, nay hoping to see.  (i.e.: gigs and gigs of traffic - it does =
look like ~2x to me in an unscientific eye-look at a chart).
>=20
> Some of it may be down to client behaviour.  Despite Facebook being a =
30 second TTL, I had to flush my MacOS X DNS cache before I'd get the =
new AAAA record.

My IPv4 is NATed but my IPv6 is not.  I have a caching transparent cache =
for the IPv4 (squid) and watching the log made me notice similar =
behavior as well.  Some systems were 'stuck' talking to the IPv4 address =
but were redirected to the v6 as a result of the squid proxy being =
dual-stacked.

- Jared=


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