Subj : IPv6/4 indicator
To   : All
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Jun 19 2011 13:39:10

Hello All,

Sunday June 19 2011 01:32, I wrote to you:

 MV> I have added a gadget to the English version of the home page of my
 MV> website to let visitors see if they connect via IPv6 or IPv4.

Hmm.. I just discovered this does not work as expected. If you go to www.vlist.org, you will get the "connected via IPV6" if your browser supports IPv6. Which is correct. www.vlist.org has an AAAA record.

If you go to www.vlist.eu/index_en.htm, it will also tell you you are connected via IPv6. This is oncorrect, there is no AAAA record for www.vlist.eu.

What happens is that you connect with IPv4, but the image of the button is fetched from ipv6-test.com using IPv6.

So all the button indicates is that you connect to ipv6-test.com via IPv6, it says nothing on how you connect to a web page that includes the code for the button....  :-(

Cheers, Michiel

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