Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by maximaximal on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:43PM
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Yes, I did this on my personal network. I'm in Linz (Austria), the nearest tunnel to a german speaking country that's listed on tunnelbroker.net was Berlin (if I remember right). Everything worked rather well, but I then decided against it, because of the GeoIP implications (with one IP being in Austria and one in Germany) and the added latency. It's noticable when SSHing somewhere whether I'm Linz-Linz or Linz-Berlin-Linz, especially when a small lag spike happens, which is rather frequent with the cable-based network our ISP is offering. It wasn't worth it to half-slowdown our network just to not rely on jumping through some dual-stack node in the university.
If anybody from Liwest (our local ISP) reads this - IPv6 would be really nice! :)
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by epx on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:16PM
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He.net needs a fixed non-CGNAT IPv4 address, with protocol 41 open, and this is quite difficult to get.
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by jeroenhd on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:33PM
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That really depends on where you live. Every ISP I've ever had has fit this bill.
I know IPv4 availability in developing countries is a problem and there's no fix for that other than "wait until IPv6 is available", but in those countries IPv6 is actually part of the solution to not have to rely on "communal" IPv4 CG-NAT.
Have you perhaps looked into using tunnels to fix this? he.net can add IPv6 support to any routable IPv4 address that can respond to ICMP. If you need to stick to your internal ULA, something like NPTv6 can translate the /48 subnet HE provides to your own /48 subnet transparently.
Requires some setting up, but so does maintaining VPNs.