Re:How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?
by dijit on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:07AM
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incentive* and yes, I agree.
I actually tell my ISP when they call me to upgrade that I will not upgrade to a higher package unless that package has IPv6 enabled. I am probably the only person who does this.
What I did instead was set up a HE.net tunnel so I can actually have IPv6 (albeit with a smaller MTU, but you're unlikely to notice). What I gain is the ability to run my own little services at home again, no NAT punching! no complicated rules.. I have a salt master that connects to my IPV6 enabled VPS' (which is all of them, thankfully), I have all my mail listening on VPS's with IPv4 and IPv6 which take in my mail and deliver it to a harddisk at my house essentially. Anything S2S can happen directly.. and it's nicer even on IPv6 enabled networks that I happen to be on when travelling (Mobile operators are increasingly IPv6)..
But it's unreliable to be IPv6 only, I can only access my home from other wifi networks at a ratio of about 1:20..
But I long for the day where it's ubiquitous and I can shit on wifi operators for not supporting it.. that day will come.
I mean last year IPv6 adoption more than doubled and is sitting at around 22%~ of all traffic.. so that's something.
I actually tell my ISP when they call me to upgrade that I will not upgrade to a higher package unless that package has IPv6 enabled. I am probably the only person who does this.
What I did instead was set up a HE.net tunnel so I can actually have IPv6 (albeit with a smaller MTU, but you're unlikely to notice). What I gain is the ability to run my own little services at home again, no NAT punching! no complicated rules.. I have a salt master that connects to my IPV6 enabled VPS' (which is all of them, thankfully), I have all my mail listening on VPS's with IPv4 and IPv6 which take in my mail and deliver it to a harddisk at my house essentially. Anything S2S can happen directly.. and it's nicer even on IPv6 enabled networks that I happen to be on when travelling (Mobile operators are increasingly IPv6)..
But it's unreliable to be IPv6 only, I can only access my home from other wifi networks at a ratio of about 1:20..
But I long for the day where it's ubiquitous and I can shit on wifi operators for not supporting it.. that day will come.
I mean last year IPv6 adoption more than doubled and is sitting at around 22%~ of all traffic.. so that's something.