Comment by dpark
5 days ago
> traffic level stayed close to 50% during the IPv6 only period.
> Nobody complained: those who did not have working IPv6 probably blamed it on cloudflare.
You described a situation where the outage resulted in 50% of your customers were unable to reach you and you were unable to do anything about it. I don’t think this story is a win for IPv6, regardless of whether your customers blame CloudFlare or not.
Compared to 0% like others?
50% is a very substantial retention rate.
Would hand been 100% if his site supported ipv4 natively instead of relying on CloudFlare to do the translation.
The story here is not “ipv6 made my site resilient to CloudFlare outage”. It’s “50% of my customers can’t reach my site even when I turn off CloudFlare”.
>if his site supported ipv4 natively
And it's becoming difficult for people to do so precisely because of IPv4 addresses running out...
This has nothing to do with anything inherent to IPv6 and everything to do with the failure of organizations to timely implement it.
I didn’t say it was an issue inherent to IPv6. But it is a practical issue with IPv6.