World IPv6 Day 2011 – Trond's place

The World IPv6 Day is upon us.

A handful of everyday web services such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, and Limelight Networks, have turned on the use of IPv6 addresses for their servers and/or load balancers, but only for the next 24 hours or so.

Why don’t you have a look the dashboard set up by the Internet Society?

Here’s Google’s IPv6 address:

$ host www.google.com
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.106
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.147
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.99
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.103
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.104
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.149.105
www.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:4008:c00::63

And here’s Facebook’s:

$ host www.facebook.com
www.facebook.com has address 69.63.190.18
www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c:0:3

Yahoo! has thrown in a handful of IPv6 addresses:

$ host www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com is an alias for fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 87.248.112.181
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has address 87.248.122.122
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3000
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f00e:1fe::3001
fpfd.wa1.b.yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1288:f006:1fe::3000

Yes baby, let the good times roll.