Full Day Trying to IPv6

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 is World Day of IPv6. This is the day when in the span of 24 hours a number of major sites of the world including Yahoo! provide their content on both servers, IPv4 and IPv6. The goal is to test the readiness of Internet services during the transition from the use of the Internet Protocol address version 4 to version 6. The trial lasted from 7 am GMT.

The need for migration to IPv6
The IP address or Internet protocol address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information sent over the Internet. The computer industry has been using IP version 4 addresses a long time and at some point address will be completely depleted.

Just like as phone numbers, additional rows of digits of the number will increase the total number of telephone numbers that can be used. Migrating to IPv6 gives a solution for every IP address has a longer row of numbers. That way, the computer industry will have quite a lot of new IP addresses for the future.

Impact of Internet users
On the Day of the World IPv6, there will not be many users who experience problems accessing the Internet for a variety of great sites to use its Internet service server transmits the IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously.

But if you're having problems, not to worry. You can visit the site IPv6 help to overcome the problems that arise.

Internet service providers and network infrastructure providers will start providing IPv6 to you within the next few months. That way, when run out of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses are implemented widely. Amendments will not be visible to Internet users daily.

Test your computer
You can test whether your computer is compatible with IPv6 test page in http://help.yahoo.com/l/id/yahoo/ipv6/ provided by a team of IPv6 Yahoo.