Google and IPv6

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Sun Mar 16 13:04:40 CET 2008


David Malone wrote:

> [Just so this message has some practical content: It seems that you
> can edit Firefox's google.xml file and subsitute www.google.com
> with ipv6.google.com to get the search box to use IPv6. I guess
> something similar will work in IE.]

While it might sound strange it would be useful if ipv6.google.com had 
an A record too. This would allow me to change my "mobile" laptop to use 
ipv6.google.com for the search box and so use IPv6 where it was 
available and fall back to IPv4 if it wasn't without having to worry.

Mark.


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