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I got so fed up with IPv6 being either straight up unavailable or being deployed in a botched fashion by residential ISPs in my area in the last 10+ years that

I got so fed up with IPv6 being either straight up unavailable or being deployed in a botched fashion by residential ISPs in my area in the last 10+ years that I picked up an ASN and a /44 last year. I advertise it from a VM on Vultr in a datacenter close to home and the experience is just amazing. I also got fed up with people discriminating against Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker (streaming services, etc) so now I just have my own tunnel broker. It's really great to have my own addresses, use them in my kubernetes clusters (via calico and cilium) and have my homelab directly advertised to the internet, knowing I will never need to re-number. Networking is a helluva drug

heybrendan 4y ago
This is super interesting. If you don't mind, can you expand on: - What was involved with picking up the ASN and the IPv6 block of addresses (process, bureaucracy, initial and ongoing costs)? - What networking plumbing is involved in being able to have homelab resources advertised to the internet? I'm not an expert in this area, but I'd very much welcome the hard work that comes with reproducing such a setup. Thanks.