Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On Sat, 17 May 2025 07:53:20 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

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Going to IPv6 sounds good by there's a hell of a lot of technical debt.

 
$ ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (2607:f8b0:4002:c1b::68) 56
data bytes 64 bytes from yt-in-f104.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4002:c1b::68):
icmp_seq=1 ttl=106 time=14.3 ms
 . . .
 
The traceroute is also all IPv6 on this box.
 
Same for www.microsoft.com.
 
For github.com, on the other hand, it is IPv4.

Odd you should use that example. For years I've checked to see if I'm
having a network problem with

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=112 time=81.3 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=112 time=82.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=112 time=81.3 ms


'whois 2607:f8b0:4023:1002::6a' and 'whois 8.8.8.8' both come up with

OrgName:        Google LLC
OrgId:          GOGL
Address:        1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City:           Mountain View
StateProv:      CA

Sure I could ping www.google.com  but typing 7 characters beats 14 any
day.