Re:India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
by magicalhippo on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:16PM
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> In my experience IPv6 is much simpler to deal with than IPv4
My experience is the complete opposite. Lot of software is still very immature when it comes to IPv6. A prime example is that I had to abandon pfSense because it just didn't handle prefix delegation. And no, switching ISP is not an option for me.
I'm now on OpenWRT which is miles better, but getting IPv6 to play nice is still lot more work. For example there were a lot more steps to getting split-horizon DNS working compared to regular IPv4.
> Even so, the core of IPv6 is a huge improvement over IPv4 for individual users, small network operators, large network operators, and the Internet as a whole.
Maybe in another decade or two when IPv6 and the ecosystem around it has matured a bit. Though it still seems to have a lot of moving parts compared to IPv4, thus requiring more to keep track of.
Re:India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
by Dagger2 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:15AM
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It shouldn't be any harder to get split-horizon DNS working on v6... and in fact v6 should eliminate the need for it in the first place, since the IP of a computer is just its IP.
My experience is the complete opposite. Lot of software is still very immature when it comes to IPv6. A prime example is that I had to abandon pfSense because it just didn't handle prefix delegation. And no, switching ISP is not an option for me.
I'm now on OpenWRT which is miles better, but getting IPv6 to play nice is still lot more work. For example there were a lot more steps to getting split-horizon DNS working compared to regular IPv4.
> Even so, the core of IPv6 is a huge improvement over IPv4 for individual users, small network operators, large network operators, and the Internet as a whole.
Maybe in another decade or two when IPv6 and the ecosystem around it has matured a bit. Though it still seems to have a lot of moving parts compared to IPv4, thus requiring more to keep track of.