Google and IPv6

[Erik Kline]

Here's hoping our little experiment goes well.  /me crosses fingers

2008/3/12 Bernhard Schmidt <berni at birkenwald.de>:
> Hi,
>
>  berni at pest:~$ host ipv6.google.com
>  ipv6.google.com is an alias for ipv6.l.google.com.
>  ipv6.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:0:1001::68
>  ipv6.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:0:2001::68
>
>  seems to work well from most places with a few exceptions (IETF-71 for
>  example at the moment). If you have issues other than that a detailled
>  report to noc-at-google.com would be a good idea. One IP address seems
>  to be in Europe, one in US, so think of that when you do
>  dicksize^Wlatency wars with your competitor.
>
>  If you want to have your Firefox searchbar hit the new host search for a
>  file named searchplugins/google.xml and replace www.google.com with
>  ipv6.google.com . You can even replace the other hostname (suggestquery
>  or so) with ipv6.google.com and it works, but I'm not sure whether it is
>  supposed to be used for that feature.
>
>  All thanks to Google, and we're of course eagerly waiting for the next
>  service to be turned up in IPv6 :-)
>
>  Bernhard
>