IPv6 only

Steve Bertrand steve at ibctech.ca
Tue Jul 1 03:14:20 CEST 2008


Just a silly shot in the dark from someone who is in what is probably 
one of the smallest IPv6 pockets on the 'net...

I'm curious to find out whether (ie: where) there are such things as 
IPv6-only nodes out on the Internet. To further, I think I'm going to 
configure one (HTTP, SMTP, ICMP, FTP and SSH) for statistics gathering 
purposes.

What I'm really interested in knowing is whether such a 'honeypot' has 
been configured before, and if so, what statistical analysis 
applications do you run to review the results? How do you store the 
results in order to compare them to IPv4 and dual-stack stats?

For instance, I receive about 30% of my email (on my personal domain) 
via IPv6. This is due to the fact that I belong to many mailing lists 
that have the list MTA IPv6 enabled. I have yet to receive a single SPAM 
message via the AAAA side of my MX.

My colleague was asking the other day what the IPv6 Internet is like. He 
says that it seems the term 'IPv6' is all that I talk about anymore. Now 
I'm personally curious to find out what exactly is available, if I flip 
a workstation into IPv6 only, and if I place an IPv6-only server on the 
Internet.

What will I find, and what are others experiences? Might I go as far (as 
a small ISP operator) to ask, what are your expectations to date? 
(...less the complaints about the porn ;)

Steve



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