ns3.police.uk publishes IPv6 but doesn't answer on it.

Has both IPv4 (A) and IPv6 (AAAA) addresses.

F
IPv6 readiness
Publishes IPv6 but doesn't answer on it — worse than having none.
Website over IPv6
ns3.police.uk has an AAAA record, but nothing answered on ports 443 or 80. IPv6 visitors wait for a timeout before falling back to IPv4.
✗ 2a01:618:404::1 no answer
broken
Mail servers (MX) have IPv6
No MX records, so mail goes to the domain's own address (implicit MX). It has an AAAA record.		yes
Nameservers have IPv6
4 of 4 nameservers checked have an AAAA record, so IPv6-only resolvers can look the domain up.
ns1.police.uk ✓ns2.police.uk ✓ns3.police.uk ✓ns4.police.uk ✓
yes
 Which outside scripts, fonts, payments or chat ns3.police.uk loads from have no IPv6.
 Load ns3.police.uk over IPv6 from up to six other places — a second opinion.

What's keeping ns3.police.uk from an A

  1. Fix or remove the AAAA record for ns3.police.uk
    Something published an IPv6 address but nothing answers on it, so IPv6 visitors wait for a timeout first. Either make the server listen on IPv6 (and allow ports 443/80 through its firewall), or delete the AAAA record until it does.

Check again

ns3.police.uk  Has IPv6

A (IPv4)213.248.220.1
AAAA (IPv6)2a01:618:404::1

Browsers on dual-stack networks will usually pick IPv6 here (the "Happy Eyeballs" algorithm races both and prefers v6).

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 Permanent link: aaaa.bot/r/-J61l2WHuq · How we measure

Checked 2026-11-15 17:10:30 UTC. Full DNS report: dns.pizza/domain/ns3.police.uk · Age, certificate and blocklists: how.is/ns3.police.uk · JSON: /api/v1/ns3.police.uk