Google has the ability to answer queries for IPv6-enabled Google services. These include not just Google search; mail and docs are also in there. Importantly, you can use IPv6 without using special addresses; there is an IPv6 address for www.google.com.
Google needs network providers to give their nameserver addresses to Google. I want OpenDNS to do that, so I can use Google over IPv6, now and in the future, on tunnel or natively. And as per another idea, of course, this goes hand in hand with OpenDNS's natively-connected IPv6 nameservers. You know you want to; it's the right thing to do.
Google is most anxious that people only be given IPv6 addresses when they won't fall over and die. According to many posts around the net, the biggest problem with IPv6 on end-user desktops is failing nameservers dropping packets they can't handle requesting AAAA resource records ... but OpenDNS is not a failling nameserver, so you'll be alright even for users who only have IPv4 connectivity.
Please do it. Tell Google where the endpoint nameservers are. I want my mail with IPv6 power!
Cheers, Sabahattin
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Google needs network providers to give their nameserver addresses to Google. I want OpenDNS to do that, so I can use Google over IPv6, now and in the future, on tunnel or natively. And as per another idea, of course, this goes hand in hand with OpenDNS's natively-connected IPv6 nameservers. You know you want to; it's the right thing to do.
Google is most anxious that people only be given IPv6 addresses when they won't fall over and die. According to many posts around the net, the biggest problem with IPv6 on end-user desktops is failing nameservers dropping packets they can't handle requesting AAAA resource records ... but OpenDNS is not a failling nameserver, so you'll be alright even for users who only have IPv4 connectivity.
Please do it. Tell Google where the endpoint nameservers are. I want my mail with IPv6 power!
Cheers, Sabahattin
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I am experimenting with IPV6 as well and I would like to see OpenDNS support Google over IPV6. I suppose I should wait a while and give OpenDNS a little time to implement Google over IPV6. Another approach would be to find a DNS service that supports Google over IPV6. Anyone have any ideas?
Tom
written by Sabahattin Gucukoglu 44 days ago
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Hi Tom,
My choice of v6 tunnel, Hurricane Electric ( http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ ) give you access to a nice anycasted name service through v4 or v6 from your tunnel endpoints. These support the Google IPv6 program, so you can access Google through your tunnels. Unfortunately they are not OpenDNS, i.e., your network can't get centralised filtering services, nor do you get the cache implied by the heaving masses. And if you're unlucky enough to have a dynamic IP, as even I do on my "Business" cable connection, things can get tricky. But they're there.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Adding to the idea, if Google or OpenDNS feel there are implications of rolling out the change universally, OpenDNS can of course make it a control panel item for networks - get IPv6 results from Google. If unset, users get no-data; otherwise, they get the RRs.
Cheers,
Sabahattin