Ten Year Anniversary of IPv6 at WashU

Ten years ago today (May 26, 2011), I enabled IPv6 on the WashU edge, core, and DNS infrastructure.

Here is the first IPv6 DNS packet to traverse the IPv6 stack (I know, it does not return an IPv6 answer, we had to start somewhere…):

jemurray@phalanges:~/ipv6 $ cat first-dns-query.txt
May 26 2011 7:50AM CDT


unicast
============
jemurray@kimber:~ $ dig @2604:3e00:0:4::1 wustl.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @2604:3e00:0:4::1 wustl.edu
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10359
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wustl.edu.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wustl.edu.		3600	IN	A	128.252.73.216

;; Query time: 21 msec
;; SERVER: 2604:3e00:0:4::1#53(2604:3e00:0:4::1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 26 07:36:28 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43




Anycast
============

jemurray@kimber:~ $ dig @2604:3e00::1 wustl.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @2604:3e00::1 wustl.edu
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62345
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wustl.edu.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wustl.edu.		3600	IN	A	128.252.73.216

;; Query time: 18 msec
;; SERVER: 2604:3e00::1#53(2604:3e00::1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 26 07:53:43 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43