Firefox ShowIP Plugin

[Dan Wing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-ops-bounces+dwing=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-
> ops-bounces+dwing=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Roesen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:51 AM
> To: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: Firefox ShowIP Plugin
> 
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:41:43AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/showip/
> >
> > If you haven't heard about it or forgot about it, it's just fun to
> see.
> 
> Beware of the limitation, that it just lists the IPs of the site
> named in the URL, with IPv6 preferred over IPv4 - but not indicating
> which address was really used to fetch content. So you might see an
> IPv6
> address there, but fallback to IPv4 has happened.
> 
> The only real info is "does this host in the URL have an AAAA RR" :-)

Right.

The Chrome extension IPvFoo will show the actual connection.  It requires
Chrome 13.x, http://code.google.com/p/ipvfoo/  Seems to work alright.

Chrome also has a "DNS.l4x.org Resolver" extension.  But it's not showing me
information in Chrome 11 -- or I am not using it correctly.

-d