Morning intro notes--don't forget to fill out your SURVEYS!!!! six lightening talks signed up, should be very cool. If you have slides, get them to Steve Feldman start with! Wireless movie after break should be cool to watch. Ren? Steve mistakenly introduces her, she corrects them. Don't forget to give feedback via the Survey forms!! 2006.02.15 v6fix: Wiping the Slate Clean for IPv6 Kenjiro Cho, WIDE/IIJ, Ruri Hiromi, WIDE/Intec NetCore Will be talking about their efforts to deploy IPv6, called v6fix. v6fix is an effort to solve problems in the current v6 deployment. focuses on v4/v6 dual stack environments. it's a technical analysis of real world problem Kenjiro will talk about tools and measurements. deployment status majority of equipment out there is v6 available from major vendors still many applications and appliances just work with v4 v6 is starting to get into various business fields Many people lack knowledge/experience with v6. when non-experts hit problems, they're clueless. Example: illiteracy. Hotel internet systems have instructions for guest. troubleshooting: if you have IPv6 enabled, please disable IPv6--brochure in guest room. Cause of problem: combination. DNS redirection returns specific A record for AAAA clients stub-resolver accepts the A for AAAA, can't get out. Wiping the slate clean for the v6 faulty behaviours only 1% and combinatorial often, but could be fatal to deployment. slow fallback to v4 after v6 errors misbehaving DNS resolvers filtering of ICMPv6 DNS misconfigurations poorly configured tunnels lack of peering or v6 paths v6fix activities (research group) identify/analysze/solve real-world tech problems in v6 deployment. Enemy: "after disabling v6, my problems went away" Cooperation needed between researches, implementers, ops. v6fix topics harmful effects of the on-link assumption. misbehaving DNS servers and resolvers slow fallback to v4 after v6 failures Examples: case 1: DNS loop at hotel real story of hotel internet system--went to same room, investigated. DNS is intercepted, redirected to signup page ipv6 users can't get beyond first page hotel instructions say to disable v6 erroneus DNS redirection system and stub-resolver redirection system always returns specific A record when getting non-A queries client's stub resolver queries AAAA for any address, blindly accepts A return response. case 2: DNS server slowdown Japanse ISP ISP upgraded a DNS cache to BIND9, recieved complaints about slowdown. recompiling BIND9 with --disable-ipv6, fixed problem, reported to JANOG Caused by older BIND9 w/o IPv6 connectivity server w/o v6 connectivity always tries to talk over v6, ends up failing back to v4 after timeouts fixed in BIND9.2.5 and 9.3.1 Common factors 1 problems appear only with specific combinatorial conditions 2 implementors and operators didn't notice until reported 3 even for professionals, not easy to track down problems. Kenjiro Cho, Tools: v6 tools and measurement results Goal: to understand the macro-level v6 healthiness current methodologies wide area meaasuremetn of behaviours of 2nd/3rd level DNS servers dual stack issues DNS server measurements of .jp domain AAAA responses: 0.13% DNS servers can't deal with AAAA requests Most are lame delegation type errors. ignore AAAA queries respond with RCODE 3 ("name error") NXDOMAIN dual-stack path analysis measurement techniques specifically designed for dual-stack take measurements for v4 and v6 at same time compare v6 results with v4 results extract problems that exist in v6 only methodology dual-stack node discovery create dual-stack node list by monitoring DNS AAAA replies. dual stack ping run ping/ping6 to target dual-stack nodes select a few representative nodes per site (/48) by RTT dual-stack traceroute trace/trac6 to selected nodes visula v6 MTU to look at issues visualize path issues distribution of v6/v4 RTTs 4000 ping targets v4 on x-axis, v6 on y axis individual nodes far above unity line--leaf issues paths and PMTU visualization from NYSERNET to ARIN sites Many of ARIN paths via jp! (lack of peering)
From ISC to ARIN sites--paths look much better, but lots of blue == lots of tunnels
Abilene case: well known problem. Abilene trying to encourage v6 adoption no AUP, tunnel services for v6 but ended up with horrible v6 paths, mostly with tunnels ISPs are reluctant to move to paid v6 connectivity Abilene thinking about suspending its relaxed AUP for v6 tool tries to illustrate such issues, convince users to move to native v6 dual stack traceroute to ABILENE from WIDE (v4 upper, v6 lower) similar RTTs/hops for v4/v6; native dual-stack paths dual-stack trace to ABILENE from IIJ similar RTTs, but different paths: currently more common dualstack traceroue to ABILINE fro ES v6 RTTs much larger than v4: roundabout tunnels Conclusion: faulty behaviours are only 1% and often combinatorial, but can be fatal to acceptance of v6 slow fallback to v4 on v6 errors knowledge sharing need to realize the dangers of harmful of adoption of v6 cooperation among researchers, implementers, and ops need to act now, or will bring negative impact to v6 deployment Acknowlegements v6fix members, etc. http://v6fix.net/ overview, documents, and fact database. contact at v6fix.net reports of issues are welcome