+mmartinec Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 The geocaching.com and Groundspeak.com web sites seem to be currently accessible only through IPv4 protocol, and not reachable via IPv6 - or at least there is no AAAA dns record posted for them. I wonder what are the Groundspeak plans for making the geocaching web site to also be accessible to IPv6 clients (without having to go through translations line NAT64). I haven't seen Groundspeak participating in last year's 'World IPv6 Day' testing event, nor do I see it listed along other popular web sites as participating in this year's 'world IPv6 launch': http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/ | Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking | equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world | are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their | products and services by 6 June 2012. As the number of geocachers using mobile clients is rapidly growing, and some mobile operators are beginning to assign only IPv6 addresses to mobile clients (and offering NAT64 or web proxies for such clients to reach IPv4-only web sites), it is becoming important for web sites to become directly reachable from IPv6 clients. Besides better reachability, web sites may appreciate seeing the client's IP address, instead of getting it hidden behind ISP's NAT or proxy server. So, will the geocaching.com be joining the June 2012 launch event? When can we expect the web site to become reachable over the IPv6 protocol? Mark Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Our plan is to have the site accessible via IPv6 before June. Quote Link to comment
+dfx Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'm already 100% IPv6 enabled (but only because I've set up a tunnel for our home LAN - our ISP doesn't do IPv6 yet ) Quote Link to comment
+Raine Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'm already 100% IPv6 enabled (but only because I've set up a tunnel for our home LAN - our ISP doesn't do IPv6 yet ) Congrats.. Quote Link to comment
Wirholt Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Yesterday was IPv6 launch day. According to this IPv6 test site the geocaching.com domain has 0 out of 5 stars for IPv6 connectivity. When will the IPv6 support start? Please, I want to continue my geocaching activities in Australia, where IPv4 addresses where exhausted already more than one year ago. Quote Link to comment
Wirholt Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Since September IPv4 is exhausted in Europe, too. It is becoming urgent! Quote Link to comment
Wirholt Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Our plan is to have the site accessible via IPv6 before June. June of which year? Quote Link to comment
+northernpenguin Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Our plan is to have the site accessible via IPv6 before June. June of which year? No, not the month. The site will be accessible via IPv6 before June, in accounting. Quote Link to comment
+tangen88 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I found this thread after going to submit a bug report related to IPv6. It's a shame to see that IPv6 support is still not here. And the date of "June" has long since passed. Has efforts in enabling geocaching.com for IPv6 fallen into forgetfullness? Quote Link to comment
+EngPhil Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 IPv6? Nah, only about 200 people use that. Seriously.... I'd like to see it, but there are plenty more things they need to fix that actually impact usability first. Lack of IPv6 isn't (yet) likely to detract from usability. Quote Link to comment
+tangen88 Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 IPv6? Nah, only about 200 people use that. Seriously.... I'd like to see it, but there are plenty more things they need to fix that actually impact usability first. Lack of IPv6 isn't (yet) likely to detract from usability. The thing is that IPv6 access isn't that hard to implement. Get the provider to enable IPv6 on your access and configure your webserver/or loadbalancers to listen on IPv6 and done . Quote Link to comment
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