YouTube turns on IPv6 support, net traffic spikes
02 Feb 2010
Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday.
Industry observers say YouTube appeared to be supporting IPv6 in production mode, as opposed to running a test of the next-generation Internet protocol.
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This isn’t that great. They’ve enabled it only for people participating in the Google via IPv6 program which is highly restrictive for anyone accessing IPv6 via a tunnel.
The fact is in Australia not many ISPs provide production IPv6 connectivity and until they do we will be cut off from content like this until its too late.
Ryan, this is not really Google’s fault, they’re not restrictive at all to include an isp network to the whitelist.. the isp just really only have to consider and behave his ipv6 network like a full production network, pretty much the same way is alredy being done with its IPv4 network.
If your ISP/Upstream do not provide you native ipv6, why not telling them you REQUIRE ipv6 support and you won’t be their customer anymore if they do not support native ipv6. ISP often use the “there’s no ipv6 request from the customers” as an excuse not to implement ipv6 on their network.. go to them and ask, see what they reply and let other people know that there IS request for ipv6.
If you’re an isp and none of your upstreams support ipv6 (which can indeed be possible in some situations) there are still many ways to get an ipv6 native connection to Google (and many other networks), like joining an internet exchange, and public peering with them.
If you’re using an IPv6 tunnel from SixXS.net, you can already use all services that Google makes available via its ‘Google over IPv6′ program. Just make sure your network resolves its DNS via one of SixXS’s DNS resolvers, and you’ll automatically be pointed to Google’s v6 servers.
See http://www.sixxs.net/tools/dnscache/ for more info.