Quantifying the Extent of IPv6 Deployment

Karpilovsky, Elliott; Gerber, Alexandre; Pei, Dan; Rexford, Jennifer; Shaikh, Aman

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00975-4_2

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“…Over the last decade several researchers studied the progress of IPv6 deployment [4]. Many of these studies were based on active probing of servers and network topology, or passive measurements based on server or traffic logs, routing data, or DNS root server data [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. These provide valuable information about the IPv6 capabilities of servers or networks, and the proportion of clients that already use IPv6.…”

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Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet client IPv6 capabilities

Zander

Andrew

Armitage

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference

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Despite the predicted exhaustion of unallocated IPv4 addresses between 2012 and 2014, it remains unclear how many current clients can use its successor, IPv6, to access the Internet. We propose a refinement of previous measurement studies that mitigates intrinsic measurement biases, and demonstrate a novel web-based technique using Google ads to perform IPv6 capability testing on a wider range of clients. After applying our sampling error reduction, we find that 6% of world-wide connections are from IPv6-capable clients, but only 1-2% of connections preferred IPv6 in dual-stack (dual-stack failure rates less than 1%). Except for an uptick around IPv6-day 2011 these proportions were relatively constant, while the percentage of connections with IPv6-capable DNS resolvers has increased to nearly 60%. The percentage of connections from clients with native IPv6 using happy eyeballs has risen to over 20%.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet client IPv6 capabilities

Zander

Andrew

Armitage

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference

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“…Ref. [15] named 6to4 and Teredo [16] the two most widely used transition solutions on the bases of the IPv6 prefixes in use. The performance of 6to4 is addressed in [17].…”

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Performance Analysis and Comparison of 6to4 Relay Implementations

Lencse¹,

Répás²

2013

IJACSA

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Abstract-the depletion of the public IPv4 address pool may speed up the deployment of IPv6. The coexistence of the two versions of IP requires some transition mechanisms. One of them is 6to4 which provides a solution for the problem of an IPv6 capable device in an IPv4 only environment. From among the several 6to4 relay implementations, the following ones were selected for testing: sit under Linux, stf under FreeBSD and stf under NetBSD. Their stability and performance were investigated in a test network. The increasing measure of the load of the 6to4 relay implementations was set by incrementing the number of the client computers that provided the traffic. The packet loss and the response time of the 6to4 relay as well as the CPU utilization and the memory consumption of the computer running the tested 6to4 relay implementations were measured. The implementations were tested also under very heavy load conditions to see if they are safe to be used in production systems.

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“…Geolocation of DITL 2009 clients reveals that at least 57.9% of the IPv6 clients querying this global root instance are from Europe [16], not surprising since this instance is in Europe, where IPv6 has had significant institutional support. The proportion of legitimate IPv6 queries (vs. pollution) is 60%, far higher than for IPv4, likely related to its extremely low deployment [4,11]. …”

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Understanding and Preparing for DNS Evolution

Castro

Zhang

John

et al. 2010

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis

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Abstract. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a crucial component of today's Internet. The top layer of the DNS hierarchy (the root nameservers) is facing dramatic changes: cryptographically signing the root zone with DNSSEC, deploying Internationalized Top-Level Domain (TLD) Names (IDNs), and addition of other new global Top Level Domains (TLDs). ICANN has stated plans to deploy all of these changes in the next year or two, and there is growing interest in measurement, testing, and provisioning for foreseen (or unforeseen) complications. We describe the Day-in-the-Life annual datasets available to characterize workload at the root servers, and we provide some analysis of the last several years of these datasets as a baseline for operational preparation, additional research, and informed policy. We confirm some trends from previous years, including the low fraction of clients (0.55% in 2009) still generating most misconfigured "pollution", which constitutes the vast majority of observed queries to the root servers. We present new results on security-related attributes of the client population: an increase in the prevalence of DNS source port randomization, a short-term measure to improve DNS security; and a surprising decreasing trend in the fraction of DNSSEC-capable clients. Our insights on IPv6 data are limited to the nodes who collected IPv6 traffic, which does show growth. These statistics serve as a baseline for the impending transition to DNSSEC. We also report lessons learned from our global trace collection experiments, including improvements to future measurements that will help answer critical questions in the evolving DNS landscape.

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Quantifying the Extent of IPv6 Deployment

Cited by 50 publications

References 8 publications

Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet client IPv6 capabilities

Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet client IPv6 capabilities

Performance Analysis and Comparison of 6to4 Relay Implementations

Understanding and Preparing for DNS Evolution

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