Re: www.nist.gov over v6 trouble Was: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

[Neil Long <neil () cymru com>]

On 8 Jun 2011, at 16:30, Jay Ford wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Neil Long wrote:
> > Top of the page it says (now, may have been added)
> > "Note: This top level web page has been setup to test IPv6  
> > capabilities and to participate in World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011.  
> > This IPv6 web page will be disabled after the end of World IPv6  
> > Day. Links on this page do not work. This is a copy of the NIST  
> > website, www.nist.gov, and is only reachable using the IPv6 network  
> > protocol. To access the entire NIST website, you must use the IPv4  
> > network protocol."
>
> Yeah, at least they said what they did, but they seem to have a
> misunderstanding of how dual-stack clients will use the www.nist.gov  
> AAAA
> record.  The result is that they've broken access to their content.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
> University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
> email: jay-ford () uiowa edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951


Oh yes. I fail to see the logic and usefulness of doing that to a web  
site but it is a scientific experiment :-)

Cheers
Neil.

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