[AusNOG] IPv6 reverse DNS and Mail ...

Tom Lanyon tom+ausnog at oneshoeco.com
Thu May 23 17:06:37 EST 2013


On 23/05/2013, at 2:49 PM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 10:07 +1000, Paul Brooks wrote: 
>> 
>>> At less than 1% global IPv6 utilisation I can understand why no-ones too interested, likely playing the wait and see game.
>> Thats 1% of end-user connections. You would expect a far greater utilisation rate amongst ISPs network operations, offices and servers, given their corporate and server traffic isn't blocked by the lack of IPv6 support on residential access networks or consumer-grade CPE.
>> 
>> Reme
> 
> The number of IPv6 mail servers I see here in a day I could count on one hand, with my thumb and a few fingers left over.
> funny enough though, they all have PTR records <face-smile.png> but given who those networks are, I'd expect them to have a clue.

With my small sample size, of the last 3,438,429 messages we've successfully delivered, ~6.6% (227,490) left via IPv6 - so a bit better than 1%, but not really a significant portion.

Tom




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