Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 6/8/11 1:29 AM, Neil Long wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2011, at 02:13, TJ wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 21:04, Iljitsch van Beijnum
> > <iljitsch () muada com>wrote:
> >
> > > On 8 jun 2011, at 2:31, TJ wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... and Gmail, too ...
> > >
> > > imap.gmail.com only has IPv4, though.
> >
> > Good catch, applies to pop & smtp as well.  Baby steps, I guess?
> > /TJ
>
> Sadly, although I can connect over IPv6 to Gmail an email sent from
> within the browser to an IPv6-only address (AAAA but also an MX) still
> gives the "DNS Error: DNS server returned answer with no data" message.
>
> Transport is one thing but getting applications working with an IPv6
> world will take longer (not that it is that hard :-) )


I've been doing IPv6 with SMTP and POP3/IMAP for quite a while now
without any magic tricks. In fact, I've found SMTP to be a far better
test in the early days since it's non-interactive and invisible to the
customer if it took time to fall back to IPv4.

~Seth