Subj : Error 404 with IPv6 enabled
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : David Drummond
Date : Wed Jul 06 2016 05:28:11

On 6/07/2016 4:29 AM, Michiel van der Vlist -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> I get a 404 using Google Chrome Version 51.0.2704.103 on Win10. IPV4
 DD>> only.

 MvdV> Try oudvanenburg.vandekraats.com.

That works just fine.

 MvdV> It redirects to http://www.vandekraats.net/oudvanenburg on IPv6. In IPv4
 MvdV> it dows not redirect.

 DD>> If I truncate the oudvanenburg/ I get a site with photos of little
 DD>> girls. What sort of site is this????

 MvdV> It is the family foto album of the sun of my old friend Jan van de
 MvdV> Kraats. The girls are his ganddaughters.

 MvdV> His son has also hosted some articles about the history of the area
 MvdV> where my friend lives. Last Saturday when he was here, he wanted to show
 MvdV> me the articles. To my surprise, we got that 404 on my computer. We
 MvdV> tried Rosa's computer and bingo. So what was the difference bewteen my
 MvdV> computer and hers? IPv6!

 MvdV> Immidiately I got some sneers to the effect of: "see, IPv6 sucks".

 MvdV> But as it turns out it is not a bug in IPv6, it is not a
 MvdV> misconfiguration on my side, it is a misconfigured web site. Sadly it is
 MvdV> incidents like this that give IPv6 a bad name. :-(

As are many "bad names", due to someone's implementation.


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Regards
David

E&OE

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