IPv6 access to geocaching.com

[+mmartinec]

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

[Moun10Bike]

Our plan is to have the site accessible via IPv6 before June.

[+dfx]

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 )

[+Raine]

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..

[Wirholt]

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.

[Wirholt]

Since September IPv4 is exhausted in Europe, too. It is becoming urgent!

[Wirholt]

Our plan is to have the site accessible via IPv6 before June.

June of which year?

[+northernpenguin]

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.

 

 

[+tangen88]

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?

[+EngPhil]

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.

[+tangen88]

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 .