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Everybody seems to make a big fuzz about ipv6. Yet for some reason, it seems to be of no importance to my life at all. I'm a fulltime native of the web and yet

by TekMol 8y ago

Everybody seems to make a big fuzz about ipv6. Yet for some reason, it seems to be of no importance to my life at all. I'm a fulltime native of the web and yet I don't even know if I have ipv6. I just typed 'do i have ipv6' into Google and the first page I landed on says "0/10 You appear to be able to browse the IPv4 Internet only.". I doubt I am missing out on anything. I'm sure I would have noticed. I also make a living from the web, yet I don't even know if my websites support ipv6. Let me type 'test website for ipv6' into Google and see what happens ... ...ok here we go: "No AAAA record. This website is not ready for IPv6." I get that for all my websites. Again, I would be very surprised if that has any impact. Somebody would surely have told me that my websites don't work for them. They are constantly in the press and on social media. Some users would surely mention it if they had problems accessing them.

tinus_hn 8y ago
Why do I see all these pictures of hungry children in Africa? Don’t they understand they can just get food at the supermarket? That’s what I do.
progval 8y ago
IPv4 is not sustainable, we're already running out of IPv4 addresses. Unfortunately, some ISPs only provide IPv4 support, so (almost) all websites have to support IPv4. And as all websites support IPv4 there is no insentive for ISPs to add IPv6 support. Repeat ad infinitum.
- mac01021 8y ago
  I would pay an extra $X per month for a handful of public, statically allocated ip addresses for the boxes in my house. Ipv6 would make that easy for my isp, but they're still never going to do it.
  - vegardx 8y ago
    You can always get a tunnel from one of the many tunnel brokers. Some are even free. I've used he.net back in the days before my ISP had native IPv6 support.
    - aaronmdjones 8y ago
      I'm still using my HE.net tunnel, and have been using it for more than 4 years. My ISP started BGP-advertising 2 IPv6 /32s 2 years ago... still no news. I fully expect that when they do deploy IPv6 to their customers (at this rate, it will be some time in the 2030s) that they'll only give you a single /64; they're that annoying. Very excellent tunnel service too. I'm pretty sure it's gone down less than 8 times in that interval.
vegardx 8y ago
If you make a living of the webpages you might want to read up on the IPv6 adoption on mobile networks, as supporting it can greatly increase the network performance for your customers. Your websites will work, but for some clients the traffic might end up going on a little detour, slowing things down on an already slow network connection (relatively speaking). I bet you already support IPv6, you just need to configure the relevant DNS records. If not, you might want to consider a change of host, as there's no good reasons for them to not support it today, and you're probably better off with someone else then.
zamadatix 8y ago
A lot of mobile users don't have an IPv4 address on their phone. The magic of NAT64 is allowing IPv6 users to talk to your IPv4 sites just like the magic of NAT was the only thing keeping your IPv4 sites being reachable the last decade since we started to run out of addresses. You may not need to know about it but it's already started to save your ass without you knowing.

by TekMol 8y ago

tinus_hn 8y ago

Why do I see all these pictures of hungry children in Africa? Don’t they understand they can just get food at the supermarket? That’s what I do.

progval 8y ago

IPv4 is not sustainable, we're already running out of IPv4 addresses. Unfortunately, some ISPs only provide IPv4 support, so (almost) all websites have to support IPv4. And as all websites support IPv4 there is no insentive for ISPs to add IPv6 support. Repeat ad infinitum.

mac01021 8y ago
I would pay an extra $X per month for a handful of public, statically allocated ip addresses for the boxes in my house. Ipv6 would make that easy for my isp, but they're still never going to do it.
- vegardx 8y ago
  You can always get a tunnel from one of the many tunnel brokers. Some are even free. I've used he.net back in the days before my ISP had native IPv6 support.
  - aaronmdjones 8y ago
    I'm still using my HE.net tunnel, and have been using it for more than 4 years. My ISP started BGP-advertising 2 IPv6 /32s 2 years ago... still no news. I fully expect that when they do deploy IPv6 to their customers (at this rate, it will be some time in the 2030s) that they'll only give you a single /64; they're that annoying. Very excellent tunnel service too. I'm pretty sure it's gone down less than 8 times in that interval.

vegardx 8y ago

If you make a living of the webpages you might want to read up on the IPv6 adoption on mobile networks, as supporting it can greatly increase the network performance for your customers. Your websites will work, but for some clients the traffic might end up going on a little detour, slowing things down on an already slow network connection (relatively speaking). I bet you already support IPv6, you just need to configure the relevant DNS records. If not, you might want to consider a change of host, as there's no good reasons for them to not support it today, and you're probably better off with someone else then.

zamadatix 8y ago

A lot of mobile users don't have an IPv4 address on their phone. The magic of NAT64 is allowing IPv6 users to talk to your IPv4 sites just like the magic of NAT was the only thing keeping your IPv4 sites being reachable the last decade since we started to run out of addresses. You may not need to know about it but it's already started to save your ass without you knowing.