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The RIPE Labs website features an interview with Alain Durand at the recent IETF 74 meeting. Alain discusses the type of IPv6 measurements he is doing at Comcast, together with the University of Pennsylvania.

Alain: Before we start I would like to stress that this is a long-term study with the aim to see how the amount of IPv6 content is increasing over time. This project is done in collaboration with Roch Guerin of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

RIPE Labs: How many sites do you see as being accessible through both IPv4 and IPv6?

 

 

Alain: For every scan we measured the percentage of sites from the top  one million Alexa ranked web sites that are accessible via both IPv4 and IPv6. There is a link to the raw data on the bottom of each page [seeFigure-1 below].

 

 

 

 

 

Read the full interview at RIPE Labs.

ISOC Argentina, in cooperation with the 6DEPLOY project, has released a new IPv6 Book “IPv6 for All: Usage and Application Guide for different environments”.

It is targeted to different types of readers, including end users, SOHO, enterprise, education and research networks, and ISPs. It also includes a section on how to deploy several IPv6 services.
The first edition is available in Spanish and can be downloaded here. Soon a new edition will be released in English and other languages being considered.

Traffic on the internet has continued to grow despite the economic crisis, industry insiders say.
Complete info at Periscope IT.

uTorrent is a great graphical tool to activate Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP.However, uTorrent on Windows Vista is quite silly: with the IPv6-only tracker tracker.sixxs.net, uTorrent says “hostname not found”. Grrrr! And do remember: on Vista Teredo IPv6 is enabled by default, so IPv6 should work. Probably uTorrent is using Vista’s braindead name resolving, meaning: no AAAA lookups with Teredo IPv6.

If 6to4 can be improved (see 6rd here), why not improve Teredo / Miredo? As a happy Teredo / Miredo user, I have a few suggestions:First: Make Teredo an ISP service, by strongly binding it to the ISP: teredo server, teredo relay and addresses from the ISP. That way, ISPs have an incentive to deploy Teredo / Miredo infrastructures: help their own customers (instead of helping random people accross

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There are over 9000 members who are active on the discussion forums. Members have the possibility to make blog posts for others to read, participate in discussions and help each other  with problems.

gogoNET provides free IPv6 connectivity through their Freenet6 tunnel broker service. They have recently introduced two new Freenet6 services:

• Reverse tunnel, to provide IPv4 connectivity in an IPv6 network
• Home Access, to provide easy and reliable connectivity to private networks from the Internet.

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