[99286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrett Lyon)
Sat Sep 15 14:20:58 2007
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From: Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:19:30 -0700
To: Rich Groves <rich@richgroves.com>
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On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Rich Groves wrote:
> Are there any reliable stats on the number of 6in4 tunnel connects
> after the Extreme was released ? I'm just wondering if this is
> something that we as a community can easily track.
>
> Some DNS analysis at the provider I worked for in the past showed
> the bulk of AAAA requests (to my surprise) were for Nintendo Wii
> specific content (the weather app and news app) . When the
> Nintendo folk decide to do something more interesting and latency
> sensitive this could be a real problem I suppose.
We removed AAAA on our production hosts shortly after we deployed it,
our global v6 deployment goes production next week, at which time I
may re-add the AAAA to limited production. If we do this, I publish
a report of the stats once I have more accurate figures.
