Cloudflare analyzed the degree of implementation of the IPV6 protocol in the global network, using traffic information from their services. In their Content Delivery Network, it is estimated that 35.9% of users support IPV6, with a share of 24% among bots and 46% among people. According to the APNIC Internet, the global degree of implementation of IPV6 is estimated at 36.64%. The leaders in IPV6 implementation are India (81.53%), Malaysia (69.48%), France (66.67%), Belgium (66.02%), and Germany (64.91%). In Russia, the level of IPV6 support is 10.84%, Ukraine – 11.76%, Belarus – 13.59%, Kazakhstan – 14.61%, Uzbekistan – 0.15%, Kyrgyzstan – 0.05%.
The above data only covers IPV6 support on the customer side. To understand how ready the DNS service is to serve IPV6 requests, traffic from the 1.1.1.1 (2606:4700:4700::1111) DNS server is analyzed. The IPV6 support level among users of the Cloudflare DNS service was found to be 30.5%, and among the servers, it was 43.3% when calculating the number of DNS queries and answers with “A” (IPV4) and “AAAA” (IPV6) records. When combining data on queries and answers, it was determined that only in 13.2% of cases, a connection with the server can be established through IPV6 instead of IPV4, meaning there is simultaneous support of IPV6 on both the client and server sides.
