[dvlug] IPv6 via Felton LUG

[Grant Bowman]

I've heard Jim present at the Felton LUG about IPv6. The notice he
forwarded about June 8th is interesting as is the link it includes:
http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_occur

Grant


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jim warner <warner at ucsc.edu>
Date: Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Felton LUG] The Second Internet
To: felton-lug at googlegroups.com
Cc: Robert Lewis <bob.l.lewis at gmail.com>


On 5/31/2011 8:08 AM, Robert Lewis wrote:
>
> http://www.secondinternet.org/
>
> This is a big book on IPV6 freely down loadable for those that are interested.

IPv6 day is almost upon us.  The attachment is UCSC's internal notice.


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World IPv6 day is coming up on June 8.

Major Internet providers like Google, Yahoo and Facebook will
be enabling IPv6 on their main web pages for a 24 hour test.
The purpose is to find the answer to the question "What could
go wrong?"  Perhaps nothing.  Perhaps something we haven't
thought of.

In part because June 8 falls within the end of year interval
where we don't make changes to our networks and systems, UCSC
will not make changes for IPv6-day.  That does not mean that
users will be unaffected.

Many desktop systems (Windows 7, Vista, MacOS 10.5+, IOS) come
with IPv6 installed and enabled.  On World IPv6 day when
www.google.com has an IPv6 address, some desktops might try to
use it.  At UCSC this will not work -- because we have not
yet enabled IPv6 on campus subnets.  Some desktops will
resort to a variety of tunnel systems, and these might not
work, or they might work with impaired performance.  And,
of course, some systems have bugs.  See:

http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_occur

If you disable IPv6 or use a computer that doesn't support
it by default, you will be able to cure temporary symptoms
from IPv6 day.  Users that would disable IPv6 should be
sure they know how to put it back because in the future,
it will be needed for full network connectivity.