World IPv6 Day

Wednesday, June 8, is World IPv6 Day, a day when companies and individuals around the world will be working to test their IPv6 support. Blizzard is getting involved, and so can you!

Beginning on June 8, players on the below realms will be able to connect to the game using IPv6. This isn’t a straightforward task and – while not extremely difficult – does involve research to ensure each component of your internet connection supports IPv6, as well as editing a game file with a text editor. While we’d love to have everyone participate, we don’t recommend taking part unless you’re already comfortable with technical aspects of your computer hardware, software, and World of Warcraft. If you aren’t comfortable tackling the task, or run into a snag while trying, don’t worry, we’ll get plenty of testing and you have our thanks for just making yourself more aware of IPv6.

If you’d like to know how to get started, or would like more information on what it’s all about, check out our IPv6 page: http://ipv6.blizzard.com/ and FAQ: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&tag=ipv6day

The realms that will support IPv6 on June 8 are:

Antonidas
Anub'arak
Blackwater Raiders
Bladefist
Borean Tundra
Cairne
Cenarion Circle
Cenarius
Darrowmere
Drak'Tharon
Drenden
Echo Isles
Farstriders
Fenris
Garrosh
Hydraxis
Hyjal
Korialstrasz
Lightbringer
Maiev
Misha
Mok'Nathal
Moon Guard
Nazgrel
Nesingwary
Nodrassil
Quel'dorei
Ravenholdt
Rivendare
Shandris
Shu'halo
Sisters of Elune
The Forgotten Coast
Tortheldrin
Uther
Vashj
Winterhoof
Wyrmrest Accord

Good morning, and thank you for participating in IPv6 day!

The World of Warcraft client tries to detect a valid IPv6 address on your local computer, so if only your modem has it, it very probably won’t work. In order to help us troubleshooting, could you follow these steps on the computer you’re using, and give us the result back?

Under Windows, go to the start menu, run, type “cmd” then enter. In the MS-Dos command prompt, type the command “ipconfig”

Under MacOS, go to the spotlight, enter “terminal”, and execute that software. In the opened terminal, type the command “ifconfig”

For privacy reasons, you may not want to fully copy/paste the IP addresses, but that’d be very helpful for troubleshooting. An IPv6 address looks like the following:
2a01:e0b:1:64:abcd:1234:5678:abcd

What we really need is the first four numbers; in that example, that would be 2a01:e0b:1:64. So you can remove safely the second half.

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Vulphara,

You can actually bypass WoW's check for IPv6 by adding the following in config.wtf:
SET enableIPv6 "1"

Could you give that a try to force the setting? Even though your setup seems quite common, you might have a case we haven't properly implemented in the IPv6 detection code.
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Quirk,

We're interested in seeing a trace route to the IPv6 servers if you could provide one. From a command or terminal window use the command provided below:

1. MS : tracert -6 ipv6.blizzard.com or tracert -6 2001:1890:e000:c01:dad3:85ff:fed9:ce24
2. Mac OS : traceroute6 ipv6.blizzard.com or traceroute6 2001:1890:e000:c01:dad3:85ff:fed9:ce24
3. Linux : traceroute6 ipv6.blizzard.com or traceroute6 2001:1890:e000:c01:dad3:85ff:fed9:ce24

I've included the command for other OSs if others would like to provide the information as well.
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Teloraelin ,

The file you edit is your config.wtf file. We routinely have people make changes to that file while troubleshooting. It isn't a game file, it's just a text file holding settings. You won't have any policy issues editing it.

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