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It feels ironic to post this on a site which itself does not support IPv6.

by quantico 5y ago

woxko 5y ago
In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using this site?
- slater 5y ago
  One less reason to take up gardening? /s
- axiosgunnar 5y ago
  In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using the sites listed on the site?
  - woxko 5y ago
    None, I also think the site is stupid.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- FranchuFranchu 5y ago
  Obviously, anyone already using this site can already afford IPv4
- MayeulC 5y ago
  The site becomes reachable to IPv6-only hosts. Some servers can work reliably with only IPv6, for instance, until you need to contact IPv4-only servers. I would like my mail server to be IPv6-only, but that's not currently possible, for instance. I wonder how many customers can realistically hide behind a single IPv4 (CGNAT), given that there are 65535 TCP/UDP ports.
  - p1mrx 5y ago
    > I wonder how many customers can realistically hide behind a single IPv4 (CGNAT), given that there are 65535 TCP/UDP ports. In theory, one IPv4 address can maintain 65535 connections with every HTTPS server (TCP port 443) on the Internet simultaneously. The main cause of port depletion would be when lots of users connect to the same server. A reasonable number is 1000 users with 64 ports each, but you could probably squeeze in another 10X.
    - MayeulC 5y ago
      Ah, right, the mapping can be per server IP, thanks for pointing this out. If Facebook started throwing persistent connections left and right, it imagine it could cause a problem, but short of that, it should be fine.
amarshall 5y ago
It does support IPv6, though. $ dig +short ipv6.watch aaaa 2a01:4f8:1c1c:4b9f:: $ curl -6Is https://ipv6.watch/ | head -1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Unless you mean HN? Feels strange to me to make that comparison.
- quantico 5y ago
  I was referring to Hacker News' lack of support for IPv6, however it is nice to see that ipv6.watch does support it. To elaborate: I feel that the irony comes from an apparent desire by this website's users towards supporting IPv6, as evidenced by a few articles about the topic on the first page today; Raising awareness of IPv6 support on a site that does not.
  - laumars 5y ago
    In other news, Google “recommends” Duck Duck Go and Bing… if you happen to type them into the Google search engine as a search term. /s Point being, the items on HNs front page are user aggregated content and has naff all to do with HN itself.
    - mgdlbp 5y ago
      Funnily enough, Yandex has links at the bottom of its results pages to the same query in Bing and Google.

It feels ironic to post this on a site which itself does not support IPv6.

woxko 5y ago

In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using this site?

slater 5y ago
One less reason to take up gardening? /s
axiosgunnar 5y ago
In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using the sites listed on the site?
- woxko 5y ago
  None, I also think the site is stupid.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
FranchuFranchu 5y ago
Obviously, anyone already using this site can already afford IPv4
MayeulC 5y ago
The site becomes reachable to IPv6-only hosts. Some servers can work reliably with only IPv6, for instance, until you need to contact IPv4-only servers. I would like my mail server to be IPv6-only, but that's not currently possible, for instance. I wonder how many customers can realistically hide behind a single IPv4 (CGNAT), given that there are 65535 TCP/UDP ports.
- p1mrx 5y ago
  > I wonder how many customers can realistically hide behind a single IPv4 (CGNAT), given that there are 65535 TCP/UDP ports. In theory, one IPv4 address can maintain 65535 connections with every HTTPS server (TCP port 443) on the Internet simultaneously. The main cause of port depletion would be when lots of users connect to the same server. A reasonable number is 1000 users with 64 ports each, but you could probably squeeze in another 10X.
  - MayeulC 5y ago
    Ah, right, the mapping can be per server IP, thanks for pointing this out. If Facebook started throwing persistent connections left and right, it imagine it could cause a problem, but short of that, it should be fine.

amarshall 5y ago

It does support IPv6, though. $ dig +short ipv6.watch aaaa 2a01:4f8:1c1c:4b9f:: $ curl -6Is https://ipv6.watch/ | head -1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Unless you mean HN? Feels strange to me to make that comparison.

quantico 5y ago
I was referring to Hacker News' lack of support for IPv6, however it is nice to see that ipv6.watch does support it. To elaborate: I feel that the irony comes from an apparent desire by this website's users towards supporting IPv6, as evidenced by a few articles about the topic on the first page today; Raising awareness of IPv6 support on a site that does not.
- laumars 5y ago
  In other news, Google “recommends” Duck Duck Go and Bing… if you happen to type them into the Google search engine as a search term. /s Point being, the items on HNs front page are user aggregated content and has naff all to do with HN itself.
  - mgdlbp 5y ago
    Funnily enough, Yandex has links at the bottom of its results pages to the same query in Bing and Google.