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Re: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days
From: Jima <nanog () jima tk>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:55:12 -0600
I'm with Frank on this one: ICMP yes, HTTP/HTTPS no, via native IPv6 (multiple locations). No, wait -- it shows as open from a couple tunnels (both HE & SixXS). So it's not consistent. Lovely.
Closed from: 2607:ff50::/32 (native) 2607:fcd0::/32 (native) Open from: 2001:1938::/32 (SixXS tunnel) 2001:4978::/32 (SixXS tunnel) 2001:470::/32 (HE tunnel)That gives me a really bad feeling of what might be wrong, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
Jima On 2011-09-05 19:57, Frank Bulk wrote:
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. FrankThe 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 beendownfor 10 days Charter.com has also remove the quad-A's for www.charter.com. Mymonitoringsystem 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 ordaysago 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 beendownfor 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 anhourago. Hopefully CenturyLink is actively working towards IPv6-enabling theirsitesagain. 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 beendownfor 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 beendownfor 10 days On 19/08/2011, at 4:18 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: It'd really suck for end users to start actively avoiding IPv6connectivitybecause 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 ofclue.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 peoplewho,well, goto IETF meetings, follow standards and ask the bloody hard questions. Even given the Happy Eyeballs (Did Hurricane PAY for it to be abbrievatedasHE?? :-) ) most end users prefer IPv6 over IPv4. Deeply this means thereisa tendency for v6 traffic to grow and be more important to connectivitythanyou 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 givetoIPv6 infrastructure and PPS rates. MMC
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)
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- 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)