Test-Ipv6.com Will Stay Online
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The website test-ipv6.com, a tool for testing IPv6 connectivity, has been saved from retirement after community outcry and is being transitioned to a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), with users expressing gratitude and relief.
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Thanks, Jason, all your efforts are much appreciated.
icanhazip.com looks even simpler on the face of it but there's always shenanigans behind the curtain:
https://major.io/p/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/
https://1.1.1.1/help
and even less usefull
https://ipv6test.google.com
well played. threatening to turn it off on christmas was a great move, must've rattled a few cages in the industry lol.
What does that actually mean in the context of a website like this?
This would just be another "general good of the internet" service.
RIPE for example run.
Atlas: A cooperative service for internet reachability and measurements. - https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ripe-atla...
DNSMON: Monitor the root and TLD's and other key internet domains. Does so from many locations so as to test anycast issues. - https://dnsmon.ripe.net/
RIPEStat / BGplay: Debug and examine internet reachability issues. - https://stat.ripe.net/ - https://stat.ripe.net/bgplay
And volunteer resources to help to run other things, like https://www.as112.net/ that sinks all the PTR lookups for RFC1918 that leaks to the internet, among other things.
That doesn't seem too surprising to me and should ensure that the site can be run sustainably without burning out volunteers.
My ISP publicly supports IPv6, but I've never gotten it to work properly, and none of the technical support I've been able to been forwarded to knows what's wrong either. Colleagues using the same ISP has the same problem, so doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.
I'm sure there are more people out there in the same situation.
>someone will again complain about the address format, without realizing that shoving in extra address bits on an IPv4 datagram is already a new protocol
So you are having all the pains of transitioning to a new Internet Protocol, but none of the benefits of having an actually huge address space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258290
You set a bit, and if set it's routed using 6 octlets. If the bit isn't set, it's routed via 1.1.x.x.x.x.
Yes, legacy can only reach 1.1.x.x.x.x.
Done.
Whether it's the addition of one octet or twelve octets, you are nevertheless introducing a new Internet Protocol, and therefore you are going to face the reality of introducing a new Internet Protocol.
To think otherwise is delusional and is the reason why the "Godwin's law of networking" has become sort of a meme.
My mobile connectivity comes via Mobile Vikings which are now part of Proximus - also IPv6 there, and I love their excellent service.
Also: https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/
But it could also be APNIC, they put out a lot of observational reports too, so it could fit with my perception of them. Maybe LACNIC or AfriNIC wants to do something to raise their profile?
Thanks!