Real world use of IPv6

There seems to be very few organisations actually appearing to support IPv6 in some sort of production fashion. While some ISPs might argue that their networks support IPv6 (and that they use it every day) because they have an IPv6 prefix that is announced to the world this could easily be achieved by a single PC runing Quagga. I think a more valid measure is to test if they have any services accessible via IPv6. I test three services:

  1. Web server accessible via IPv6;
  2. Email deliverable via IPv6; and
  3. DNS name servers accessible via IPv6.

Partial points are awarded if some but not all DNS name servers have IPv6 addresses. Similarly partial points are also awarded if a secondary MX supports IPv6 but the primary does not.

ISPs

Organisation (domain) Web Mail DNS
AAPT (aapt.com.au) FAIL FAIL FAIL
AOL (aol.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
AT&T (att.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
BT (bt.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
China Telecom (chinatelecom.com.cn) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Cogent (cogentco.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Deutsche Telekom (telekom.de) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Flag Telecom (flagtelecom.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Global Crossing (globalcrossing.com) FAIL FAIL SUCCESS
Hanaro Telecom (hanaro.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Hurricane Electric (he.net) FAIL FAIL FAIL
IIJ (iij.ad.jp) SUCCESS FAIL FAIL
iiNet (iinet.com.au) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Internode (internode.on.net) FAIL FAIL FAIL
KDDI Corporation (kddi.com) SUCCESS FAIL FAIL
KT (Korea Telecom) (kt.co.kr) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Level 3 Communications (level3.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
LG Dacom (lgdacom.net) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) (ntt.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Optus (optus.com.au) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Qwest Communications (qwest.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Savvis (savvis.net) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Singtel (singtel.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
SK Telecom (sktelecom.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Sprint (sprint.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Telecom Italia (telecomitalia.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Telecom New Zealand (telecom.co.nz) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Telefonica (telefonica.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
TeliaSonera (teliasonera.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Telstra (telstra.com) FAIL FAIL 1/4
Tiscali (tiscali.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Verizon Business (verizonbusiness.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
VSNL International (vsnlinternational.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL

Vendors

Organisation (domain) Web Mail DNS
Apple (apple.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Cisco Systems (cisco.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
EMC (emc.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Force10 Networks (force10networks.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Google (google.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
HP (hp.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
IBM (ibm.com) FAIL FAIL 1/4
Juniper Networks (juniper.net) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Microsoft (microsoft.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Sun Microsystems (sun.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL
Yahoo! (yahoo.com) FAIL FAIL FAIL

Standards Bodies and Registries

Organisation (domain) Web Mail DNS
AfriNIC (afrinic.net) FAIL FAIL 3/6
APNIC (apnic.net) SUCCESS FAIL 2/4
ARIN (arin.net) SUCCESS FAIL 1/8
ICANN (icann.org) FAIL FAIL 1/7
IEEE (ieee.org) FAIL FAIL FAIL
IETF (ietf.org) SUCCESS PARTIAL 3/7
ITU (itu.int) FAIL FAIL FAIL
LACNIC (lacnic.net) SUCCESS SUCCESS 2/4
RIPE (ripe.net) SUCCESS FAIL SUCCESS

Users

Organisation (domain) Web Mail DNS
me (mrp.net) SUCCESS SUCCESS 1/5

Last Updated: Tue Oct 23 23:04:01 2007