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Re: [Non-DoD Source] question: are the various IETF web sites IPv6 enabled? If not, why not?

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Tue, 09 March 2021 21:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] question: are the various IETF web sites IPv6 enabled? If not, why not?
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:14:24 -0800
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John,

When I go to https://tools.ietf.org I get a single IPv6 address.  See attached.

Bob



> On Mar 9, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Baird, John M CTR OSD HPCMP (USA) <john.m.baird10.ctr=40mail.mil@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> Thanks for the quick response. You mention the Firefox "six or not" extension, and that is why I asked the question about IPv6 and IETF websites.
> 
> When I browse the websites you cited, and also https://tools.ietf.org, IPvFoo lists several IPv4 addresses, but makes no mention of any IPv6 addresses.
> 
> I can see the IPv6 addresses in DNS, but for some reason IPvFoo reports that the websites respond to web browsers only via IPv4.
> 
> Any theories as to why this is so?
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:57 PM
> To: Baird, John M CTR OSD HPCMP (USA) <john.m.baird10.ctr@mail.mil>
> Cc: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: question: are the various IETF web sites IPv6 enabled? If not, why not?
> ----
> 
> On 09-Mar-21 16:30, John Levine wrote:
>> In article <4CC47F19-3063-430F-8378-B00EB7E2708F@gmail.com> you write:
>>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>>> 
>>> It is my understanding that they all are, and have been for some
>>> time. I might suggest that you ping6 (or ping -6 depending on your OS) to see whether you get a response.
>> 
>> Yes, they all are.  The mail is, too.
> 
> Caution-https://www.irtf.org/ too.
> Caution-https://www.rfc-editor.org/ too.
> Caution-https://www.internetsociety.org/ too.
> 
> The "six or not" FireFox extension tells me that the ISOC site invokes a couple of IPv4 services, so needs dual stack. The IETF site is clean in that regard.
> 
>   Brian
>

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