[141463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: www.nist.gov over v6 trouble Was: Microsoft's participation in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ford)
Wed Jun 8 11:30:15 2011
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:30:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <F7E39351-741A-459E-BCF2-E605F77480C2@cymru.com>
Reply-To: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Neil Long wrote:
> Top of the page it says (now, may have been added)
> "Note: This top level web page has been setup to test IPv6 capabilities and
> to participate in World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011. This IPv6 web page will be
> disabled after the end of World IPv6 Day. Links on this page do not work.
> This is a copy of the NIST website, www.nist.gov, and is only reachable using
> the IPv6 network protocol. To access the entire NIST website, you must use
> the IPv4 network protocol."
Yeah, at least they said what they did, but they seem to have a
misunderstanding of how dual-stack clients will use the www.nist.gov AAAA
record. The result is that they've broken access to their content.
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Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
email: jay-ford@uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951
