[afripv6-discuss] A note about Yahoo

Mon Feb 11 14:49:17 SAST 2013

Hi John,

I only wish I knew.  I've escalated this on behalf of one of the South
African universities 4 times now, and they themselves have attempted to
escalate it as well.

Yahoo doesn't seem like they give a damn sadly :(

I will talk to a few more contacts there and do some more begging and
pleading.

Thanks

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:afripv6-discuss-bounces at afrinic.net] On Behalf Of John Hay
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:46 PM
To: IPv6 in Africa
Subject: Re: [afripv6-discuss] A note about Yahoo

Hi Andrew,

It looks like this is still not fixed? If one go to www.yahoo.com, you get
redirected to "http://za.yahoo.com/?p=us" and that reply with "Your
requested URL was not found."

If you look at the source, it looks like this:

##############
<HEAD><TITLE>Not Found on Accelerator</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="white"
FGCOLOR="black"> <FONT FACE="Helvetica,Arial"><B>  Your requested URL was
not found.</B></FONT>

 <!-- default "Not Found on Accelerator" response (404) -->  </BODY>
##############

So how does one go about getting Yahoo to fix it?

John
--
John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:31:29AM +0200, Andrew Alston wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> Recently it came to our attention that Yahoo had some rather severely 
> broken
> IPv6 on the servers that .za was diverting to.  NOTE: I do not know if 
> this situation applies outside of South Africa since I'm not sure 
> which servers Yahoo is redirecting other African users to.
> 
>  
> 
> Basically though, they added quad-a DNS records to all of their servers.
> They then added the v6 addresses to their servers.  Only. they didn't 
> configure their webservers to actually display the pages via IPv6.  
> So, if you browsed via IPv6 their webservers came back with a nice 
> "This page can't be located" message.  Because the IPv6 connectivity 
> itself worked, there was also no fallback to v4.
> 
>  
> 
> So, we queried Yahoo via their standard support channels. and received 
> the most bizarre response I have ever seen, that summarized said "We 
> don't support v6 on the frontend pages yet, we aren't going to remove 
> the quad-a's, please tell your users to use ipv4.yahoo.com"
> 
>  
> 
> Now, that's nothing short of insanity, especially when in our case, 
> you're talking about telling 40 thousand+ students to use some other 
> address to access Yahoo.
> 
>  
> 
> At this point I escalated the issue to other people in Yahoo who 
> seemed to have a fair bit more clue, and I've been informed that the 
> issue should be resolved by sometime on Monday.  But this is a note to 
> anyone using native
> v6 and getting strange errors back from Yahoo, things are currently 
> broken, and will only be fixed around Monday timeframe.
> 
>  
> 
> I have to say, kinda disappointed to see this from a company as large 
> as Yahoo who did such a good job in the world v6 day in promoting v6, 
> because this kinda thing really hurts the deployment of IPv6, it makes 
> people scared to move ahead and it's not what we need.  At the same 
> time, to the guys I eventually ended up being able to escalate to and 
> who were helpful and attempted to assist me immediately, my sincere
thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Andrew Alston
> 
> Alston Networks - Owner
> 
>  
> 

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