It was almost three years ago when I put the above graphics onto my site to show that it is accessible via IPv6. At that time I was using a virtual private server (VPS), and my hosting provide was not offering native IPv6 connectivity so I had to use one of the various tunneling mechanisms that existed. The situation was the same at my premises with my ISP, so native IPv6 was somthing to come in the future…
Now the time goes by, and a few days ago I noticed that I am visiting some of the sites via IPv6.
Really? Let’s see..
% wget ipv6.google.com
--2015-03-08 09:20:55-- http://ipv6.google.com/
Resolving ipv6.google.com (ipv6.google.com)... 2404:6800:4004:814::200e
Connecting to ipv6.google.com (ipv6.google.com)|2404:6800:4004:814::200e|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified
Saving to: ‘index.html’
[ <=> ] 19,746 --.-K/s in 0.01s
2015-03-08 09:20:55 (1.58 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [19746]
A technique called dual stack is employed with my ISP. Try http://ipv6-test.com/ to see what happens in your environment. (The results depends on both your PC and your ISP.)
Google says that the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6 is around 5% now.
