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It's 2022 and I've never yet seen an IPv6-capable internet connection at any home I've lived in, office I've worked at, coffee shop or library whose network I'v
by jlokier 4y ago
It's 2022 and I've never yet seen an IPv6-capable internet connection at any home I've lived in, office I've worked at, coffee shop or library whose network I've used. And I've lived in a lot of places
Phones have it. But when I connect my computers via my phone's hotspot, the computers only get IPv4.
My data SIM at home enables IPv6 when used in a phone. But when installed in my 4G router, same contract, same provider, there is no IPv6 despite the router supporting it. That is, supporting in theory. Since I've never seen it enabled, I can't say if it works.
My bare metal servers have IPv6. But my cloud VMs and containers only get IPv4.
The last major network protocol I worked with, a P2P mesh protocol that needs to pass around IP addresses, has IPv6 on the todo list. Last I saw, earlier this year, there was a debate about whether it was worth adding or not. At the moment it's defaulting to no, even though I've seen a few IPv6 addresses attempt to join and be rejected
I can add IPv6 tunnels (VPNs and such) wherever I want, if I want to test software. But I could do that 20 years ago. It feels a bit artifical, not having the real thing.
My current work has a VPN we must use to access work dev servers. Obviously that doesn't use IPv6.
Forget about IPv6-"only", I'm still yet to see much IPv6 at all (except on phones).
- aidenn0 4y agoMy experience is quite different from yours: - my ISP has offered IPv6 /64 delegations for over 5 years now. - One cloud provider I use gives a discount for VMs with no IPv4 address, the other has ipv6 addresses.
- arlcode 4y agoI've had IPv6 at my home for at least 10 years I would say. My parents do as well. I was recently surprised that ssh to my dual stack private server didn't connect at work. It turned out I had set up the config file as V6 only. Location: Southern Germany.