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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:37AM (#39100892)
You'll also need a router that's not stuck in the 90's.

I never got IPv6 working well until I switched from pfSense to OpenWRT, due to my residential ISP switching prefixes very frequently.

For example, there was no way to get pfSense to not publish the public address of the router as the internal DNS, so every time the prefix changed internet effectively broke.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 by orangeboats on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:31AM (#39101302)
By the way, you can use a separate Linux box (if you have any) to announce your ULA and DNS using radvd. Just remember to set AdvDefaultLifetime to 0 or else your devices will attempt to route their packets to the Linux box.

It was what I did when I had a router that announced only public IPv6 prefixes to the LAN.

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