Subj : IPv6 Nodes in Fidonet.
To   : All
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Thu Jan 24 2013 21:29:46

Hello All!

  I was curious how IPv6 is doing in Fidonet.

  My first action was, to extract all the uniqe hostnames in the
  Nodelist, in this case the Dailylist of today.

  For every hostname DNS lookup I recorded which names returned an IPv6
  address. In total ther were 20 addresses, but two were of the same system.
  For the 19 Systems that remained, I performed a Binkp poll, as an
  elaborate way to check if the system supported Binkp on IPv6.
  When no connection is established, the IPv4 address is tried.

   5 Systems failed or refused connection on IPv4 and IPv6
  10 Systems failed on IPv6, but connected on IPv4
   3 Systems connected on IPv6.

   As one of the three systems that responded on IPv6 connects to my node
   using IPv6 several times a day, I think I can add 1 to the three above.

   My conclusion is, that 4 uniqe nodes are currently IPv6 ready for Binkp.

   I would like to apologise, to those, whose systems I have been pestering
   with empty polls.

Kees

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