Yes, www.v6.facebook.com has been deprecated. The dual-stacked www.facebook.com (via World IPv6 Launch) is the way to go, until we run out of addresses again.
Thanks and cheers Donn ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Will Lawton* > Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012 > Subject: www.ipv6.facebook.com not loading > To: Jima <na...@jima.tk> > Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> > > > www.v6.facebook.com was the official pre-www AAAA record host. I recall a > www.ipv6.facebook being added as a redirect because there seemed to be > confusion around which one it was. > > Regardless, to answer the original question, yes www.v6.facebook.com has > been official deprecated for almost 2 years now as it was only meant as a > test platform for the inevitable www.facebook.com AAAA. > > If you can not get to www.facebook on v6, please work with your ISP to > find out why. When I left there, it was still a whitelisting design for > known good networks, but I believe that was done away with after this years > ipv6 day. > > -Will Lawton > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:17, "Jima" <na...@jima.tk> wrote: > > > On 2012-10-25 07:18, Frank Bulk wrote: > >> Since Wednesday at 1:48 pm Central www.ipv6.facebook.com has not been > >> loading (though it's pingable). Does anyone know if this has been > >> formally > >> deprecated? > > > > As I recall, the primary IPv6-only FQDN was (and still is) > > www.v6.facebook.com . I honestly never noticed that they added an AAAA > > for www.ipv6.facebook.com . > > > > Hardly scientific, but > > > http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=www.v6.facebook.com&word2=www.ipv6.facebook.com > > seems to support my memory to some degree. > > > > Jima > > > > > >
