Re: IPv6 traffic stats

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

David Kessens wrote:
> Joe,
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20:11AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote:
>   
> > I'm not aware of DNS block lists which cover IPv6 address spaces at
> > this time, probably in part because IPv6 traffic remains de minimis 
> > (see http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/8/the-end-is-near-but-is-ipv6/
> > showing IPv6 traffic as constituting only 0.002% of all Internet traffic).
> >     
>
> For the record: 
>
> It seems that arbornetworks estimates are extremely low to the point
> where one has to ask whether there were other issues that caused such
> a low estimate.
>
> There is no question that IPv6 traffic is quite low in the Internet.
> However, many other reports that I have seen recently measure multiple
> orders of magnitude more IPv6 traffic (for an easily accesible example
> see: http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/sflow/)
Google's measurements indicate that when faced with a dual-stack host 
(one with both an AAAA and an A record in the DNS), 0.5% of all hosts 
will access that host using IPv6.

(As presented at the RIPE meeting in Dubai last month.)

                   Harald

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