Today was World IPv6 Day, the day when many web sites and Internet service providers were supposed to test IPv6 for 24 hours. I doubt most people noticed. My workstation is IPv6-connected and I kept a connection tracker up for most of the day to see when IPv6 was used. I was disappointed to see that Akamai did not go over IPv6 today, at least from here. Google and Facebook (which uses “face:b00c” in its IPv6 addresses) showed up on the list. A number of Penn State web sites showed up, but they had been IPv6-enabled long before today.

In other words, ho-hum. From my perspective, World IPv6 Day was a blip. The IT world just needs to keep pressing on diligently in deploying IPv6.

I played with Asterisk 1.8 a little, to see what needs to be done to enable IPv6. Just bind it to the v6 stack with bindaddr=:: in sip.conf (or sip_general_custom.conf if you use FreePBX). That’s it; you’re ready to communicate over IPv6.

Check out the free IPv6 Certification from he.net. You get an IPv6 Sage T-shirt when you have completed all of the exercises that test your IPv6-configuration skills.