Network Operations

Measuring World IPv6 Day - Long-Term Effects

Emile Aben

• 5 Jul 2011

• 6 min read

In this article we'll look at some of the more long-term effects of World IPv6 Day, as seen in our measurements a number of weeks after the event itself.

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Increased Query Load on Root Name Servers

Wolfgang Nagele

• 29 Jun 2011

• 3 min read

We experience an increased query load on K-root, the root server operated by the RIPE NCC. See below some analysis and graphs showing the traffic on K-root and other root servers.

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - Some Glitches And Lessons Learned

Emile Aben

• 28 Jun 2011

• 7 min read

As already stated by us and others, World IPv6 Day on 8 June, was a big success. No major issues came to light, and most minor issues that surfaced were resolved, and as such were a useful learning experience. In this article we provide details on some of the events we observed by looking at our me…

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - First Impressions

Mirjam Kühne

• 17 Jun 2011

• 5 min read

World IPv6 Day took place on 8 June 2011. The RIPE NCC did a number of measurements both before and during World IPv6 Day. We've done an initial analysis of the data and would like to share our first impressions and results with you.

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World IPv6 Day - Asymmetric 6to4 Measurements

Richard Barnes

• 6 Jun 2011

• 8 min read

RIPE NCC and BBN have been working on measuring the impact of 6to4 on the latency of Internet traffic. This article describes the measurement techniques used for this survey, and some initial findings based on measurements conducted at BBN.

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Experimental NAT64/DNS64 Service

Raimundas Tuminauskas

• 1 Jun 2011

• 2 min read

The Lithuanian research and education network LITNET has introduced the NAT64/DNS64 service at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2010) last year, and it has been running ever since. The main feature of NAT64/DNS64 is that it can not only be used as a usual NAT, but as a meeting point between tw…

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When Does World IPv6 Day Start?

Emile Aben

• 31 May 2011

• 4 min read

World IPv6 Day is on 8 June 2011. On this day, a lot of organisations, including some of the most popular ones like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, are going to provide IPv6 addresses for AAAA queries for their websites. This will make content available over IPv6 for one full day. Since DNS responses a…

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World IPv6 Day - IPv6 Eye Chart

Emile Aben

• 27 May 2011

• 3 min read

The RIPE NCC is doing some measurements for World IPv6 Day. One of them is the IPv6 eye chart, a web page that allows you to test your connectivity to selected dual-stacked web sites and World IPv6 participants. The goal is to see if an end user has connectivity problems to dual-stacked websites. T…

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IPv6 CPE Survey Results - May 2011

Marco Hogewoning

• 23 May 2011

• 8 min read

A couple of months ago we announced that we were going to redo the IPv6 CPE survey. Based on your feedback, a real survey was released at the end of April 2011. So far we have received over 100 responses. We'll keep the survey open to gather more information, but for now we would like to share some…