IPv6 only

Jay Hennigan jay at impulse.net
Tue Jul 1 03:53:24 CEST 2008


Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Just a silly shot in the dark from someone who is in what is probably 
> one of the smallest IPv6 pockets on the 'net...
> 
> I'm curious to find out whether (ie: where) there are such things as 
> IPv6-only nodes out on the Internet. To further, I think I'm going to 
> configure one (HTTP, SMTP, ICMP, FTP and SSH) for statistics gathering 
> purposes.
> 
> What I'm really interested in knowing is whether such a 'honeypot' has 
> been configured before, and if so, what statistical analysis 
> applications do you run to review the results? How do you store the 
> results in order to compare them to IPv4 and dual-stack stats?
> 
> For instance, I receive about 30% of my email (on my personal domain) 
> via IPv6. This is due to the fact that I belong to many mailing lists 
> that have the list MTA IPv6 enabled. I have yet to receive a single SPAM 
> message via the AAAA side of my MX.
> 
> My colleague was asking the other day what the IPv6 Internet is like. He 
> says that it seems the term 'IPv6' is all that I talk about anymore. Now 
> I'm personally curious to find out what exactly is available, if I flip 
> a workstation into IPv6 only, and if I place an IPv6-only server on the 
> Internet.
> 
> What will I find, and what are others experiences? Might I go as far (as 
> a small ISP operator) to ask, what are your expectations to date? 
> (...less the complaints about the porn ;)

Complaints?  What complaints?  The most famous IPv6-only website -- 
http://www.ipv6porn.com/

Right now it's just for statistics generation.

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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
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