Re: IPv6 day non-participants

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:

> Someone has told me that Microsoft "switched off IPv6" for the day. Is that
> true? To what extent?

I think this depends on the division.

their search (bing) folks turned it off.

% host www.bing.com.
www.bing.com is an alias for search.ms.com.edgesuite.net.
search.ms.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a134.b.akamai.net.
a134.b.akamai.net has address 96.17.150.114
a134.b.akamai.net has address 96.17.150.112
a134.b.akamai.net has address 96.17.150.105


their gaming folks (xbox) left it on.

% host www.xbox.com.
www.xbox.com is an alias for www.gtm.xbox.com.
www.gtm.xbox.com is an alias for msxbwsd.vo.llnwd.net.
msxbwsd.vo.llnwd.net has address 208.111.170.165
msxbwsd.vo.llnwd.net has address 68.142.73.109
msxbwsd.vo.llnwd.net has IPv6 address 2607:f4e8:200:12:225:90ff:fe2a:9f9a
msxbwsd.vo.llnwd.net has IPv6 address 2607:f4e8:200:11:230:48ff:fed2:5022

(another view on the world)

2011-06-08.out:www.bing.com.|216.156.249.136,216.156.249.152|2600:1406::5043:4aa7,2600:1406::5043:4a8e|OK|OK|OKOK
2011-06-09.out:www.bing.com.|63.236.253.34,63.236.253.75,63.236.253.82,63.236.253.81,63.236.253.32,63.236.253.41,63.236.253.48,63.236.253.25||OK|Name
 or service not known|

2011-06-08.out:www.xbox.com.|128.242.186.238,128.242.186.198|2001:418:2401:3::c6ad:1531,2001:418:2401:3::c6ad:1548|OK|OK|OKOK
2011-06-09.out:www.xbox.com.|128.242.186.198,128.242.186.238|2a02:26f0:c:1::5c7a:32ba,2a02:26f0:c:1::5c7a:32b2|OK|OK|OKOK