Soon all Google services will be available via IPv6
Back in January, we joined the Internet Society and several leading Internet companies to announce the World IPv6 Day. The announcement will be a call for the adoption of a new Internet protocol. In less than six months, we grew to 400 organizations . We believe that IPv6 is the only long-term solution to addressing the depletion of IPv4, and its deployment is critical to the continued growth of an open Internet.
Starting from this moment, during 24 hours, at midnight on June 8 (Tuesday afternoon in the USA, on Wednesday morning in Asia), all members of the society will turn on IPv6 support on their websites. For us, this will mean almost all of our services, including Search, Gmail, YouTube and more.
You will not even notice the transition. The majority (99.95%) of people will have access to services without any problems: either they will connect using the IPv6 protocol, or their systems will be successfully returned to IPv4. However, like any next-generation technology, it can be quite painful when moving. We estimate that 0.05% of systems may not return to IPv4, so for some people, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, and others may open slowly or be unavailable. This may be caused by incorrectly configured or incorrect network equipment.
For the past few months, we and other industry players have been hard at work. Operating system vendors and browser manufacturers released updates to solve possible IPv6 connectivity problems, for example, Google Chrome now includes workarounds for IPv6 network problems, and we watched router manufacturers who tested their devices for reliable IPv6 support. For our part, we worked a lot, adding support for IPv6 to services that do not yet have it, and fixed minor problems with it. And since the best way to find errors in their services is to “knock on them yourself with a hammer”, so the “World IPv6 Day” mode has been working for Google employees for several months now.
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We also thought about how to better warn those who may have problems. Therefore, we made notifications in Google search, directing it to a test page and a help article . If you're interested, you can check your connection at ipv6test.google.com .
Starting from this moment, during 24 hours, at midnight on June 8 (Tuesday afternoon in the USA, on Wednesday morning in Asia), all members of the society will turn on IPv6 support on their websites. For us, this will mean almost all of our services, including Search, Gmail, YouTube and more.
You will not even notice the transition. The majority (99.95%) of people will have access to services without any problems: either they will connect using the IPv6 protocol, or their systems will be successfully returned to IPv4. However, like any next-generation technology, it can be quite painful when moving. We estimate that 0.05% of systems may not return to IPv4, so for some people, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, and others may open slowly or be unavailable. This may be caused by incorrectly configured or incorrect network equipment.
For the past few months, we and other industry players have been hard at work. Operating system vendors and browser manufacturers released updates to solve possible IPv6 connectivity problems, for example, Google Chrome now includes workarounds for IPv6 network problems, and we watched router manufacturers who tested their devices for reliable IPv6 support. For our part, we worked a lot, adding support for IPv6 to services that do not yet have it, and fixed minor problems with it. And since the best way to find errors in their services is to “knock on them yourself with a hammer”, so the “World IPv6 Day” mode has been working for Google employees for several months now.
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We also thought about how to better warn those who may have problems. Therefore, we made notifications in Google search, directing it to a test page and a help article . If you're interested, you can check your connection at ipv6test.google.com .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/120761/
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