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RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:57:37 -0500
Strange, not for me. nagios:/etc/nagios3# ping6 www.savvis.com PING www.savvis.com(2001:460:100:1000::37) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:460:100:1000::37: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=55.5 ms 64 bytes from 2001:460:100:1000::37: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=55.4 ms 64 bytes from 2001:460:100:1000::37: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=55.6 ms 64 bytes from 2001:460:100:1000::37: icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=55.4 ms ^C --- www.savvis.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 55.465/55.517/55.608/0.176 ms nagios:/etc/nagios3# wget -6 www.savvis.com --2011-09-05 20:57:08-- http://www.savvis.com/ Resolving www.savvis.com... 2001:460:100:1000::37 Connecting to www.savvis.com|2001:460:100:1000::37|:80... failed: Connection refused. nagios:/etc/nagios3# Frank -----Original Message----- From: Mark Andrews [mailto:marka () isc org] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 8:55 PM To: frnkblk () iname com Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days In message <007f01cc6c37$0f4ac060$2de04120$@iname.com>, "Frank Bulk" writes:
A Chrome plugin alerted me to the fact that savvis.com has an AAAA for www.savvis.com. Unfortunately access to that host over IPv6 is down, too. Frank
The fault must be local to you. Works fine from here. Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk () iname com] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:03 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been
down
for 10 days Charter.com has also remove the quad-A's for www.charter.com. My
monitoring
system alerted me this afternoon that it couldn't get to the v6 version of their website. Because of DNS caching, I don't know how many hours or
days
ago it was removed. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk () iname com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:59 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been
down
for 10 days I just noticed that the quad-A records for both those two hosts are now gone. DNS being what it is, I'm not sure when that happened, but our monitoring system couldn't get the AAAA for www.qwest.com about half an
hour
ago. Hopefully CenturyLink is actively working towards IPv6-enabling their
sites
again. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk () iname com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:14 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been
down
for 10 days FYI, the issue is not resolved and I've not heard from either of the companies suggesting that they're working on it. Note their commitment to IPv6 in these releases:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/centurylink-joins-internet-community
-in-world-ipv6-day-123089908.html http://news.centurylink.com/index.php?s=43&item=2129 Frank -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Moyle-Croft [mailto:mmc () internode com au] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:08 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been
down
for 10 days On 19/08/2011, at 4:18 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It'd really suck for end users to start actively avoiding IPv6
connectivity
because it keeps breaking and for organisations that have active AAAA records to break peoples connectivity to their resources. +1 -- I'm all for publishing AAAA records as everyone knows, but, if you publish AAAA records for a consumer facing service, please support and monitor that service with a similar level to what you do for your IPv4 versions of the service. The coming years are going to be difficult enough for end-users without adding unnecessary anti-IPv6 sentiments to the mix. Owen +1 to Owen's comment. I'd also add some more comments: A lot of eyeballs that have v6 right now are the people with a lot of
clue.
Do you want these people, who'll often be buying or recommending your services to rate your ability to deliver as a fail? Our experience with IPv6 consumer broadband has been that the early adopters are the people
who,
well, goto IETF meetings, follow standards and ask the bloody hard questions. Even given the Happy Eyeballs (Did Hurricane PAY for it to be abbrievated
as
HE?? :-) ) most end users prefer IPv6 over IPv4. Deeply this means there
is
a tendency for v6 traffic to grow and be more important to connectivity
than
you may imagine. The tipping point for IPv6 traffic being dominant I suspect is going to be a lower threshold of take up than people might expect. Consider this when thinking about the level of thought you give
to
IPv6 infrastructure and PPS rates. MMC
-- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
Current thread:
- RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Frank Bulk (Sep 01)
- RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Frank Bulk (Sep 05)
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Mark Andrews (Sep 05)
- RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Frank Bulk (Sep 05)
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Jima (Sep 05)
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Mikael Abrahamsson (Sep 05)
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Christian de Larrinaga (Sep 06)
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Mark Andrews (Sep 05)
- RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Frank Bulk (Sep 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days PC (Sep 01)
- RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days Frank Bulk (Sep 06)