Youtube over IPv6 for non-whitelist users?

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jun 20 12:47:00 CEST 2011


On 20 Jun 2011, at 11:39, Harald Firing Karlsen wrote:

> On 20.06.2011 12:20, Mark Smith wrote:
>> I'm currently on the end of a 6to4 tunnel and I've configured my Linux
>> box to prefer tunnelled IPv6 over native IPv4, and I'm in the asia
>> pacific. I've had no issues what so ever with the youtube content being
>> delivered over IPv6, including 1080p videos.
>> 
>> Here's quite a spectacular 1080p video to test with.
>> 
>> http://youtu.be/Cj6ho1-G6tw?hd=1
> I get the same issue with this video now. 720p loads very slow and the video lags while 1080p loads fast and the movie loads within a few seconds.
> The 720p video loads from 2a00:1450:4005:1::23 and the 1080p video loads from 2a00:1450:4005:1::20.

I see the 360p from 2a00:1450:400b::a, the 720p HD coming from 2a00:1450:400b:1::18 and the 1080p HD from 2a00:1450:400b:1::14.  All three load just fine.

Tim




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