99.99% of people won't have an IPv6 connection and can't be bothered to set up a...

ay · on June 8, 2011

The point of the day is to ensure that enabling AAAAs on the server side does not break the world. clientside IPv6 connectivity is a nice plus, but optional.

A couple of corrections:

1) ULAs are normally not routable over the internet. Though of course blocking them explicitly would not hurt.

2) depending on the RFC3484 configuration on the hosts, this "IPv6" might break connectivity to dualstack sites.

Please - go to tunnelbroker.net (or sixxs.net) and get yourself a tunnel - it is not that difficult, really.

rwmj · on June 8, 2011

You can test clients and servers on a LAN, far more simply than setting up a tunnel.

Anyway, I'm trying to get everyone to test IPv6, and believe me most people are not going to want to set up a tunnel to do this.

Edit: and the "point" of today is to test IPv6 in software. Only a tiny part is to make sure that IPv6 can be routed across the internet-at-large.

ay · on June 8, 2011

Ah, if the intent is to test the clients/server in an isolated LAN - then, yes, ULAs might work.

Though you can as well use the 2001:db8::/32 and later you can also publish your examples readily.

My comment was about any testing that involves the boxes that may want IPv4 or IPv6 connectivity to external world, apologies if I misunderstood.