Come Sunday, all U.S. Federal Govt. agencies must support IPv6 on outward facing Web sites

Dan Wing dwing at cisco.com
Tue Sep 25 21:45:57 CEST 2012


> -----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 Dan York
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:00 AM
> To: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
> Cc: ipv6-ops
> Subject: Re: Come Sunday, all U.S. Federal Govt. agencies must support
> IPv6 on outward facing Web sites
> 
> Steven,
> 
> You might also want to note the list NIST maintains of all the US gov't
> web sites that have IPv6 enabled - it's listed on the NIST page as
> "World IPv6 Launch Sites" because they built the page for World IPv6
> Launch, but they have been updating it regularly:
> 
> http://usgv6-deploymon.antd.nist.gov/cgi-bin/generate-all.www
> 
> Currently showing 305 sites.   

Nice list (showing 315 right now).  Of that list, 20 fail for me (about 6%),

www.americathebeautifulquarters.gov has IPv4  has IPv6
::ffff:208.45.143.104 (failed) (errno=22) (time=0.000007)
www.usmint.gov                 has IPv4  has IPv6  ::ffff:208.45.143.104
(failed) (errno=22) (time=0.000006)
www.ccac.gov                   has IPv4  has IPv6  ::ffff:208.45.143.108
(failed) (errno=22) (time=0.000005)
www.fed.gov                     no IPv4   no IPv6  
www.realestatesales.gov        has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:194
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.104990)
www.govsales.gov               has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:104
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.149270)
www.computersforlearning.gov   has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:109
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.058724)
www.gsaxcess.gov               has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:86
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.058854)
www.computers4learning.gov     has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:109
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.058712)
www.gsaauctions.gov            has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:0:150:6000::4:194
(failed) (errno=61) (time=13.013658)
www.qatesttwai.gov             has IPv4  has IPv6  2605:3100:fffb:100::7c
(failed) (errno=65) (time=12.962534)
www.fttesttwai.gov             has IPv4  has IPv6  2605:3100:fffb:8100::7c
(failed) (errno=65) (time=12.962549)
www.dottrcc.gov                has IPv4  has IPv6
2001:19e8:d:a:204:68:195:222 (failed) (errno=64) (time=16.060310)
www.usastaffing.gov             no IPv4  has IPv6  2620:109:21:8200::22
(failed) (errno=64) (time=16.041666)
www.jobcorps.gov               has IPv4  has IPv6  2001:1890:1c00:e000::20
(failed) (errno=60) (time=76.493138)
www.lmrcouncil.gov             has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:109:0:100::134
(failed) (errno=60) (time=76.447814)
www.safertrucks.gov            has IPv4  has IPv6
2001:19e8:da:2:204:68:195:196 (failed) (errno=64) (time=76.402025)
www.pmf.gov                    has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:109:0:100::43
(failed) (errno=60) (time=76.401763)
www.cflhd.gov                  has IPv4  has IPv6
2001:19e8:d8:1:199:79:179:33 (failed) (errno=60) (time=76.402552)
www.usalearning.gov            has IPv4  has IPv6  2620:109:0:100::134
(failed) (errno=60) (time=76.356640)


usastaffing.gov is amusing because they have AAAA but no A for their "www."
service name,
  > host www.usastaffing.gov             
  www.usastaffing.gov has IPv6 address 2620:109:21:8200::22
  > host usastaffing.gov
  usastaffing.gov has address 205.131.182.22
  usastaffing.gov has IPv6 address 2620:109:21:8200::22


Happy Eyeballs are needed so dual-stack clients don't suffer problems
attempting to connect to such misconfigurations.

-d


>  This article in PC World quotes an
> Akamai source saying that they will be IPv6-enabling another 300 - 400
> sites by this coming Friday:
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010530/how-the-us-is-winning-the-race-
> to-nextgen-internet.html
> 
> One more comment below...
> 
> On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote:
> 
> 
> 	On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:18 -0400, William F. Maton Sotomayor
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 		http://usgv6-deploymon.antd.nist.gov/cgi-bin/generate-gov
> 
> 
> 	Thanks. Very handy. I'd checked NIST, but I managed to miss this.
> 
> 
> Also do note a subtle nuance in what NIST is tracking on that
> particular page.  They are monitoring "unique configured service
> interfaces" which translates not into web *sites* but rather web
> *servers*, i.e. network interface cards.  Any of those web servers
> could in fact be hosting multiple (and many) individual web sites. So
> there is not an exact correlation between the info on this page and the
> other pages that are tracking individual domains.
> 
> I personally find this page more interesting:
> 
> http://usgv6-deploymon.antd.nist.gov/snap-all.html
> 
> as it compares the USG stats to those of industry and universities
> based on lists NIST has been tracking. (And shows how much better the
> USG is doing than either industry or universities.)   For the USG IPv6-
> enabled domains, note that the "Operational" category is for sites that
> have all three - web, mail and DNS - working over IPv6, while the "In
> Progress" means at least one of the three is working (and I suspect
> that is mostly web).
> 
> Given that many (most?) agencies only started on IPv6 with the mandate
> two years ago, it's rather impressive how far they have all come given
> the highly distributed nature of the US government agencies and their
> many different contracts, IT vendors, equipment, etc..
> 
> Regards,
> Dan  (who was curious about these stats once before and asked someone
> at NIST questions)
> 
> --
> Dan York
> Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	Steven
> 
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> Nichols
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