Doesn't seem to be the case, apple.com does not have an AAAA record. :(
Also shame on Microsoft for no full IPv6 support in WSL2.
(The CV posted above is outdated, this is what the traceroute shows today)
8 37 ms 36 ms 36 ms hello [2001:bc8:3eff:c0::1]
9 32 ms 32 ms 31 ms My.name.is.Louis.Poinsignon [2001:bc8:3eff:c0::2]
10 33 ms 32 ms 31 ms I.am.a.network.and.systems.engineer [2001:bc8:3eff:c0::3]
11 35 ms 36 ms 35 ms This.is.my.resume.over.traceroute [2001:bc8:3eff:c0::4]
12 37 ms 35 ms 36 ms o---Experience---o [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::]
13 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms 2021.Apple.Engineer.SF.USA [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::714]
14 33 ms 34 ms 31 ms 2018.Cloudflare.Engineer.SF.USA [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf3]
15 32 ms 34 ms 33 ms 2017.Cloudflare.Engineer.London.UK [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf2]
16 38 ms 36 ms 35 ms 2016.Cloudflare.Engineer.Intern.SF.USA [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf1]
17 36 ms 35 ms 34 ms o---Education---o [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::]
18 36 ms 35 ms 34 ms 2015-2016.DrexelUni.Exchange.CE.Philadelphia.USA [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::1]
19 37 ms 32 ms 32 ms 2011-2016.UTT.Master.CE.France [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::2]
20 37 ms 34 ms 35 ms o---Skills---o [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::]
21 36 ms 36 ms 34 ms Golang.C.Python [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::1]
22 36 ms 34 ms 36 ms Networks.Linux.Automation.Kafka.Clickhouse.Kubernetes [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::2]
23 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms Statistics.Maths [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::3]
24 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms o---Various---o [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:7a::]
25 34 ms 35 ms 35 ms Swimming.Karate.Piano [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:7a::1]
26 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms o---Contact---o [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:c0::]
27 32 ms 34 ms 31 ms mail.jobs.at.poinsignon.org [2001:bc8:3eff:c0:c0::1]
28 33 ms 35 ms 30 ms cv6.poinsignon.org [2001:bc8:3eff:c0::ff]
apple.com is just a redirect to www.apple.com, which does have IPv6.
Apple has been slowly but surely adding IPv6 to their public network services - App Store and OS downloads come over IPv6, and their NTP resolver just added IPv6 support.
I guess the department that controls that apple.com -> www.apple.com redirect just hasn't bothered, which is interesting because such a simple, dumb redirect service is one of the easiest things to dual-stack (as in it probably doesn't store IPs or have to worry about blocking at all, it just responds with a 301)
I think it's reasonable to assume that this whole thing has been a marketing campaign to get people to finally have a reason to switch to IPv6.
All kidding aside, IPv6 isn't even required for their website or this traceroute trick. He just set up an in-addr.arpa reverse DNS zone to reverse resolve particular IP addresses to specific values. If you had a block of 20 IPv4 addresses, I don't see anything stopping you from doing the exact same thing.
>If you had a block of 20 IPv4 addresses, I don't see anything stopping you from doing the exact same thing.
A block isn't necessary at all, even on IPv4. Traceroute can easily show internal address or just be lied to. Just recently we've seen a different example of this on HN:
IP addresses can be lied about, but reverse DNS still needs your ownership of those IP addresses if I understand it correctly. One would need the provider of those IP addresses to setup PTR records for them.
If your ISP doesn't block ICMP, you can get IPv6 capabilities using tunnels like https://tunnelbroker.net/. Especially useful if you have a router you can configure this stuff on so all of your devices get IPv6 for free. Completely free of charge and with minimal latency if you live somewhere near a data centre.
Netflix and friends won’t work over them. But with some clever routing, you can get it to work… I just got native ipv6 last winter and had to use tunnels like this for years.
