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Until AWS, Azure and GC support native IPv6 there won't be many apps that can use this.

by sandstrom 10y ago

kuschku 10y ago
OVH’s cloud supports native IPv6.
ryao 10y ago
The HE tunnel broker can be used there.
vetinari 10y ago
These apps can use it anyway. It is for carriers to be able to deploy IPv6 only networks. If your service is hosted on IPv4-only host, from the perspective of the device, you will be behind NAT64. If your service is on IPv6-reachable host, you will get the bonus in the form of a direct connection.
- sandstrom 10y ago
  Good point, thanks for adding this! Still, I think it's sad that none of the three large cloud providers have IPv6 support. Digital Ocean, OVH and a few other has it though. Still, most are with one of the big three.
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mrweasel 10y ago
And until there are apps that can use IPv6, there won't be a need. I think it's fine that Apple attempts to push IPv6, because no one else seems to be doing anything, well no big companies at least.
- davorb 10y ago
  Almost 12% of internet users are accessing Google over IPv6, and that figure is growing exponentially[0]. The users are already there, and our apps need to start using IPv6 more. [0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Neil44 10y ago
It's coming, I noticed that my Linodes and Rackspace boxes started sending mail to Google and 365 via straight IP6 recently. I didn't have to do anything, I only noticed because my IP6 PTR's were wrong. It's the future!
r4um 10y ago
AWS ELBs are reachable over IPv6 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-internet-facing-load-balancers.html#internet-facing-ip-addresses http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...
- jvolkman 10y ago
  Only if you're still using classic.
- t0mas88 10y ago
  Not when using VPC, which almost any modern AWS deployment is.
  - r4um 10y ago
    True, though ClassicLink is an option. Launch ELB in EC2 classic and add instances in VPC over classlink.
    - jvolkman 10y ago
      New accounts (as of 2013-12-04) don't even support classic. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc...
- kalleboo 10y ago
  Only in EC2-Classic, which is only supported by legacy AWS accounts that signed up before December 2013. Anyone who signed up for AWS in the past 2 years can not use IPv6.

Until AWS, Azure and GC support native IPv6 there won't be many apps that can use this.

kuschku 10y ago

OVH’s cloud supports native IPv6.

ryao 10y ago

The HE tunnel broker can be used there.

vetinari 10y ago

These apps can use it anyway. It is for carriers to be able to deploy IPv6 only networks. If your service is hosted on IPv4-only host, from the perspective of the device, you will be behind NAT64. If your service is on IPv6-reachable host, you will get the bonus in the form of a direct connection.

sandstrom 10y ago
Good point, thanks for adding this! Still, I think it's sad that none of the three large cloud providers have IPv6 support. Digital Ocean, OVH and a few other has it though. Still, most are with one of the big three.

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mrweasel 10y ago

And until there are apps that can use IPv6, there won't be a need. I think it's fine that Apple attempts to push IPv6, because no one else seems to be doing anything, well no big companies at least.

davorb 10y ago
Almost 12% of internet users are accessing Google over IPv6, and that figure is growing exponentially[0]. The users are already there, and our apps need to start using IPv6 more. [0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Neil44 10y ago

It's coming, I noticed that my Linodes and Rackspace boxes started sending mail to Google and 365 via straight IP6 recently. I didn't have to do anything, I only noticed because my IP6 PTR's were wrong. It's the future!

r4um 10y ago

AWS ELBs are reachable over IPv6 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-internet-facing-load-balancers.html#internet-facing-ip-addresses http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...

jvolkman 10y ago
Only if you're still using classic.
t0mas88 10y ago
Not when using VPC, which almost any modern AWS deployment is.
- r4um 10y ago
  True, though ClassicLink is an option. Launch ELB in EC2 classic and add instances in VPC over classlink.
  - jvolkman 10y ago
    New accounts (as of 2013-12-04) don't even support classic. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc...
kalleboo 10y ago
Only in EC2-Classic, which is only supported by legacy AWS accounts that signed up before December 2013. Anyone who signed up for AWS in the past 2 years can not use IPv6.