[afripv6-discuss] A note about Yahoo

Tue Feb 12 09:07:16 SAST 2013

A Very sad story indeed for some of us here in West of Africa planning 
to move to v6. I hope John plea will bring us an encouragement.

Regards,
Soji

On 2/11/2013 1:49 PM, Andrew Alston wrote:
> 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-----
> From: afripv6-discuss-bounces at afrinic.net
> [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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