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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by ThatPlayer on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:32PM (#32918668)
I feel like Starlink could at least partially mitigate this by supporting IPv6. T-mobile US supports IPv6, and I hardly notice this as an issue on my phone. Or the time my work ran the business over a 4G mobile while waiting for ISP install.
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by tomjakubowski on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:31PM (#32919945)
A genuine question from an ignoramus: how on earth did Starlink launch a brand new ISP in 2020 which doesn't support IPv6? Is IPv6 really so difficult? Does actually nobody care about IPv6 still, after all these years?
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by jeremyvisser on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:43PM (#32920305)
Not an answer to your question, but an indicator of shared culture: Tesla vehicles also don’t support IPv6 whatsoever.

Things you might use an internet connection for in your Tesla include triggering air con remotely, live traffic and satellite maps, streaming music or online radio, web browsing, or YouTube/Netflix/Disney+ clients.

It completely refuses to use IPv6 over mobile or wi-fi. Also it refuses to access anything over IPv4 (apart from DNS) which resolves to an RFC1918 address, even if it's connected to said RFC1918 network.

So yes, Starlink and Tesla are different companies, but I see cultural parallels which I'm sure surprises nobody.

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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by tomjakubowski on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:48AM (#32920903)
That's wild. I wonder if Musk has some wealth tied up in the scarcity of IPv4 addresses, like an IP NIMBY.
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by NelsonMinar on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:50PM (#32930597)
I've been wondering that too, it's kind of confounding. Particularly since Starlink started with CGNAT to manage a limited IPv4 address allocation.

FWIW there've been hints from time to time that Starlink was working on IPv6; users reported being given working addresses. That mostly stopped though when they handed over ISP operations to Google last year.

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