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It would be nice if certain websites we all use every day supported v6 better...

    firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA news.ycombinator.com
    news.ycombinator.com has no AAAA record
    firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA twitter.com
    twitter.com has no AAAA record
    firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA cloud-images.ubuntu.com
    cloud-images.ubuntu.com has no AAAA record
    firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA ubuntu.com
    ubuntu.com has no AAAA record

...

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It sure would be. Here's a list that does: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/?q=1

BTW, there is a nifty Chrome extension that tells you whether the site is doing IPv4 or IPv6. Always nice to see a green 6 in the address bar.

In case anyone's interested, the Chrome extensions is IPvFoo [0], a similar one for firefox is IPvFox [1].

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipvfoo/ecanpcehffn... [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ipvfox/

The worst part is that most of these sites probably do have ipv6 addresses, they just didn't set up the DNS for it.

By the way, I find it interesting that Fedora supports IPv6:

    $ host -t AAAA fedoraproject.org
    fedoraproject.org has IPv6 address     2001:4178:2:1269::fed2
    fedoraproject.org has IPv6 address 2607:f188::dead:beef:cafe:fed1
    fedoraproject.org has IPv6 address 2610:28:3090:3001:dead:beef:cafe:fed4

while Red Hat doesn't:

    $ host -t AAAA redhat.com
    redhat.com has no AAAA record

There are no AAAA records for ubuntu.com, but archive.ubuntu.com does have AAAA records.

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