Yahoo IPv6 upgrade could shut out 1 million Internet users
Liko, McTim et al. It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6... ~~~~story By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World January 19, 2011 10:22 AM ET Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially. Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support IPv6 -- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol -- could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call "IPv6 brokenness.'' IPv6 BROKENNESS BACKGROUND: Yahoo proposes "really ugly hack" to DNS To continue reading, register here and become an Insider. You'll get free access to premium content from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. See more Insider content or sign in. Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially. Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support IPv6 -- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol -- could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call "IPv6 brokenness.'' check the rest of the unfolding story at, http://tinyurl.com/6z634ed walu.
Hi Walu, On 1/20/11 10:52 AM, Walubengo J wrote:
Liko, McTim et al.
It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6...
Unless yahoo are going onto an IPv6 only network (which beats all logical migration sense) then its less likely to happen. In a dual-stack environment (running both IPv4 and Ipv6 at the same time). service will be delivered based on the source/originating/requesting protocol. Regards, Michuki.
@ Michuki The problem is the "IPV6 brokenness" in tunneled or dual stacked IPV6 installations ________________________________ From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Cc: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 11:46:55 AM Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Yahoo IPv6 upgrade could shut out 1 million Internet users Hi Walu, On 1/20/11 10:52 AM, Walubengo J wrote:
Liko, McTim et al.
It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6...
Unless yahoo are going onto an IPv6 only network (which beats all logical migration sense) then its less likely to happen. In a dual-stack environment (running both IPv4 and Ipv6 at the same time). service will be delivered based on the source/originating/requesting protocol. Regards, Michuki. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Shadrack Mwaniki <shadrack_mwaniki@yahoo.com> wrote:
@ Michuki The problem is the "IPV6 brokenness" in tunneled or dual stacked IPV6 installations
1 million users having access issues out of 2 billion users [1] -- who cares ... this isnt bad news ... leave alone news. [1] = http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Hi Shadrack, Having read through the article now (not a knee jerk reaction from my earlier posting). The article does address a key challenge with misconfigured firewalls and broken IPv6 implementations. So yeah - those folks with such problems will experience long waits or timeouts as a result. Its a known issue and part of the Ipv6 day is to measure the magnitude of such issues. Anyone with an IPv6 network that would like to participate on this event - please contact me offlist. Regards, Michuki. On 1/20/11 4:15 AM, Shadrack Mwaniki wrote:
@ Michuki The problem is the "IPV6 brokenness" in tunneled or dual stacked IPV6 installations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> *To:* Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Cc:* Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Thu, January 20, 2011 11:46:55 AM *Subject:* Re: [Skunkworks] Yahoo IPv6 upgrade could shut out 1 million Internet users
Hi Walu,
On 1/20/11 10:52 AM, Walubengo J wrote:
Liko, McTim et al.
It looks like I might be the first victim of my earlier predictions about the sluggish approach of African Networks not upgrading to IPv6...
Unless yahoo are going onto an IPv6 only network (which beats all logical migration sense) then its less likely to happen. In a dual-stack environment (running both IPv4 and Ipv6 at the same time). service will be delivered based on the source/originating/requesting protocol.
Regards,
Michuki. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke <mailto:Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 <http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94> ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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