Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable

Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jraph on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:37PM (#33897368)

My shitty cable modem which is also a router does not expose its web interface to the world by default.

I don't understand why you'd need a firewall if

- you trust devices on your network (yes, big if, but even then: the only reachable ports of a machine from the outside are those explicitly open to the outside, most stuff listens to 127.0.0.1 anyway)

- you only configure your NAT to forward ports you would open on your firewall

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by sph on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:43PM (#33897484)

My shitty router also firewalls incoming IPv6 connections by default, unless I manually allow them per-device, so I don't get your point.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jraph on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:55PM (#33897649)

My point is lzaaz's one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897568

I didn't think of my cable modem as a firewall. Maybe technically it has one to provide the feature of blocking access to its web interface from the world, or maybe it just listens to the right network. I don't know, but for all intent and purposes, setting up a firewall myself does not seem necessary.

To be fair, I was also a bit annoyed by staringback's phrasing.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jraph on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:45PM (#33897531)

What's with the attacks??

I make sure what I build supports IPv6 (and I'll use tunnels if it's what it takes) but I can't make the only cable ISP available at my place support IPv6. I wish it did. I wish I didn't have to use its garbage hardware.

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