5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
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5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
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Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#2See previous discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680652
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#3The one thing I gather from that graph is that over weekends, IPv6 use spikes. I assume that this means that networks or devices at companies and schools are lagging behind at using IPv6?
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#4I hope everyone is aware that IPv6 is the perfect way to bypass rate-limiting for systems that analyse Google results (for SEO ea.)
There's a good chance a lot of this traffic consists of those bots testing Google's results ....
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#5The one thing I gather from that graph is that over weekends, IPv6 use spikes. I assume that this means that networks or devices at companies and schools are lagging behind at using IPv6?
Yea, there could be a number of reasons for this.
Companies may not see a need to upgrade to IPv6 just yet, all their internal machines have nat-ed addresses and they have enough public ip addresses.
They use some legacy software / hardware X that doesn't support IPv6 (hey, some companies are still paying Microsoft to support XP).
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#6I hope everyone is aware that IPv6 is the perfect way to bypass rate-limiting for systems that analyse Google results (for SEO ea.) There's a good chance a lot of this traffic consists of those bots testing Google's results ....
Rate-limiting is still easy with IPv6, you just limit whole subnets (e.g. a /64) instead of single IP addresses. I guess Google has figured that out as well.
I actually do believe that this is real traffic. Here in Germany the number of connections with native IPv6 is rising constantly. At home all my devices are always using IPv6 when connecting to Google services because I also have native IPv6. Those 12.26% for Germany look pretty believable.
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#7The one thing I gather from that graph is that over weekends, IPv6 use spikes. I assume that this means that networks or devices at companies and schools are lagging behind at using IPv6?
Yea, there could be a number of reasons for this. Companies may not see a need to upgrade to IPv6 just yet, all their internal machines have nat-ed addresses and they have enough public ip addresses. They use some legacy software / hardware X that doesn't support IPv6 (hey, some companies are still paying Microsoft to support XP).
Or when I look at the company I work for it's just that nobody bothers because not having IPv6 hasn't caused a single problem so far.
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#8I hope everyone is aware that IPv6 is the perfect way to bypass rate-limiting for systems that analyse Google results (for SEO ea.) There's a good chance a lot of this traffic consists of those bots testing Google's results ....
Rate-limiting is still easy with IPv6, you just limit whole subnets (e.g. a /64) instead of single IP addresses. I guess Google has figured that out as well. I actually do believe that this is real traffic. Here in Germany the number of connections with native IPv6 is rising constantly. At home all my devices are always using IPv6 when connecting to Google services because I also have native IPv6. Those 12.26% for Ge…
In Germany anyone on the telekom network who has a new contract or changed an exisiting contract in the last 16 months or so has IPv6.
Re: 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
#9Cool to see Belgium at almost 30%... we can learn something from our neighbours (only 2.5% here in .nl)
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