[99837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic map of IPv6 availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Fri Oct 5 23:39:26 2007
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:38:27 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <C49D06B5-5134-4348-8CAC-794B14FB7395@daork.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Nathan Ward wrote:
>
> On 6/10/2007, at 3:18 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
>> <stuff>
>> Given the above, I think there is no myth.. !
>
> That's because the 'v6 network' is broken enough that putting AAAA
> records on sites that need to be well reachable is a bad idea.
>
> For example, due mainly to Vista's 6to4 tunnelling stuff (based on
> researching a random sample of users), I'd lose about 4% of visitors to
> my web-sites if I were to turn on AAAA records.
Has anyone who was using AAAA records for a site turned them off due to
reachability problems?
- Kevin
