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IPv6 Certification Program Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: citruswood on January 25, 2011, 09:55:51 PM

Title: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: citruswood on January 25, 2011, 09:55:51 PM
I'm embarrassed to be asking such a basic "I'm stuck" question so quickly, but everything seems to be "just working"...except that the Explorer test doesn't agree.

Here's my setup in a nutshell:

Here's what does work:

What isn't working:

...but I did set up a tunnel from HE, and I do have an IPv6-capable connection because I've viewed IPv6 content...right?

I'd be happy to provide any additional info needed to troubleshoot my issue.  What I'm thinking is that my browser's preference for IPv4 (as stated in the readiness test results above) might be the trouble, and that I'm not seeing the IPv6 version of the Explorer result page. I've tried Safari 5, Chrome 8, and Firefox 3, all without success. That leaves me without an idea for a direction to go.

Any recommendations?  Thanks!
Title: Re: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: donbushway on January 25, 2011, 10:04:26 PM
The test tells you the browser prefers ipv4 not ipv6 so the test gets your ipv4 address.

Note: Your browser appears to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 when given the choice. This may in the future affect the accuracy of sites who guess at your location.
Title: Re: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: cholzhauer on January 26, 2011, 05:07:41 AM
Yeah, I'm able to access the website you provided.

It looks like you'll need to adjust the IPv6 preference level so IPv6 is preferred above IPv4, although that's the it ships from the factory
Title: Re: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: donbushway on January 26, 2011, 08:09:53 AM
The only thing I can find is that apples implementation if broken.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/apple-fixes-broken-ipv6-by-breaking-it-some-more.ars

But that describes the 6 to 4 problem in 10.6.5, not the 6 in 4 problem you are having unless they broke it more in 10.6.6

It is the os preferring ipv4 over ipv6 if a tunnel is involved.
Title: Re: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: jrowens on February 02, 2011, 12:32:29 AM
You could try doing the tests at http://ipv6.tunnelbroker.net/certification/ instead of http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ .  It's configured as an IPv6-only DNS record, so you can be sure you connect to it over IPv6 if possible, despite the preference of the browser.
(There's also http://ipv4.tunnelbroker.net/ , IPv4-only record, handy for when your IPv6 is down and you need to fix it, so the www address keeps taking forever until the IPv6 times out if the browser prefers that.)
Title: Re: Earning my Newbie Badge: Can browse IPv6 sites, but can't pass Explorer.
Post by: bgmccollum on November 13, 2011, 01:57:04 PM
I was having the same problem, despite http://test-ipv6.com/ giving me a 10/10. I was finally able to force the test to load over IPv6 by going directly to http://[2001:470:0:64::2]/certification/.