Facebook and IPv6 Day

Adam Armstrong lists at memetic.org
Wed Jun 8 18:10:52 CEST 2011


On 08/06/2011 16:32, Will Lawton wrote:
> The goal for 'today' was to get IPv6 enabled, not to move from v4 to v6. Getting the entire site working under IPv6 was a much larger task than any one engineer was able to drive at this time.
>
> We will continue to work towards getting all of the backing code able to support an entire IPv6 supported site, but for now it is dual-stack and still requires some IPv4 connectivity.
That doesn't qualify for any sane definition of "dual-stack". At best it 
qualifies for "IPv4 with a tiny bit of IPv6 if you fancy it".

Dual-stack means it works on both, without requiring any intervention 
from the other.

Well done getting that far, though.  ;)

adam.


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