Google and IPv6

[David Malone]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> The truth is that adding AAAA records will cause reachability loss of 
> unknown magnitude.  We don't know what's going to happen to the teredo and 
> 6to4 tunnel brokers in this situation; we don't know what's going to happen 
> with broken CPE DNS relays, and the v6 DMZ is still in a shockingly poor 
> state, to name but a few problems.

I wonder if this suggests that we should add AAAA records to sites
that won't trip up the general public, but will trip up network
engineers and sysadmins, who may be in a position to fix these
problems. Tech support sites for servers and routers would seem
like an ideal target.

Six months after, we can remove the A records to encourage deployment
and catch the people who just turned off IPv6 on their boxes!

[Just so this message has some practical content: It seems that you
can edit Firefox's google.xml file and subsitute www.google.com
with ipv6.google.com to get the search box to use IPv6. I guess
something similar will work in IE.]

	David.