Internet2 DNS is fully IPv6-enabled
A few months ago, Internet2 made one of their DNS servers reachable over IPv6. Their other DNS server (dns.internet2.edu) was still IPv4-only. That's now changed.
All of the authoritative name servers for internet2.edu are now reachable over IPv6. This has been a long time coming, and it's great to see it done:
$ dig -t NS internet2.edu
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -t NS internet2.edu
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1475
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;internet2.edu. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
internet2.edu. 3913 IN NS dns.internet2.edu.
internet2.edu. 3913 IN NS dns2.internet2.edu.
internet2.edu. 3913 IN NS phloem.uoregon.edu.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns.internet2.edu. 7138 IN A 207.75.164.59
dns.internet2.edu. 7155 IN AAAA 2001:468:1420::59
dns2.internet2.edu. 7143 IN A 192.52.179.250
dns2.internet2.edu. 7151 IN AAAA 2001:468:c07:1::250
phloem.uoregon.edu. 61905 IN A 128.223.32.35
phloem.uoregon.edu. 61905 IN AAAA 2001:468:d01:20::80df:2023
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 2610:8:6800:1::4#53(2610:8:6800:1::4)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 10:51:53 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 229
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Hi Derek. Is there a defined plan/timeline for PSU for role out IPv6 throughout the U? I would have thought with the Feds requiring backbone IPv6 that we'd be seeing a lot more movement throughout the industry by now.
regards,
-Rich
There isn't a centralized, plan, no. ITS has deliberately avoided a mandate for IPv6 adoption. There is an IPv6 working group in ITS that's just started. ITS provides IPv6 transit on the Integrated Backbone; your backbone contact can request IPv6 address space from TNS.
There is work happening on IPv6, but it's fairly under the radar. For exampl,e In North America, 2007 was the biggest year ever for IPv6 allocations; it more than doubled the previous record year (2005). In Europe, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (which is the biggest public exchange in the world), doubled the number of IPv6 ports it has.
So it's happening, just very quietly and slowly.