On 16/05/2013 18:02, Keith Williams wrote:
> Once I had established that I could ping6 fairly local addresses, I
> tried pinging further afield and when some of those failed, I tried dig
> aaaa on them and found that there were no aaaa records. We are talking
> big names here - amazon.co.uk <http://amazon.co.uk> etc. Interestingly,
> my isp doesn't provide ipv6 connectivity to customers, but I can ping6 them!
Yes, Amazon and Microsoft don't have AAAA records for their main web
sites but they do support IPv6 for their cloudy stuff (AWS and Office 365).
It's gradually getting more widespread, though - I noticed recently that
I'm starting to get more and more port scans over IPv6.
Mike
