I made an effort to learn it. In 2000. Again in 2012 or whenever the last big push was. If past is prologue, I may need to learn it again soon. 😆
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I am hosting a few services on my LAN over IPv6, except for Plex, which I am tunneling through IPv4, since Plex itself used to have issues with IPv6.
It's always funny when friends complain that one of my services is down, it was 100% IPv6 not working/enabled/willingly disabled on their site yet.
Yup, the benefits don't outweigh the costs.
For individuals. There are tons of benefits for everyone collectively, but as is often the case, there's not enough incentive for any one person to bother until everybody else does.
Ah, Dutch directness... Nothing says clear communication louder than the Dutch
It's an edited image, but you are darn right. Proper communication is great
It is in the style of the original, where during Covid the page on “Migrating to the Netherlands” simply just started with “Do not migrate to the Netherlands”, before expanding on the Covid restrictions on place and what foreign nationals currently in the Netherlands are to do.
On one hand: Now that's loud & clear communication. On the other hand, “Just don't” really ties in to the stereotype of Dutch directness/rudeness.
::1 is the new 127.0.0.1
:: abbreviates empty fields
ipv6 has more addresses
there is something going on with mac addresses (asside from arp)
thats all i remember
fd00:: is the new 192.168
~~fc00::/7 are ULA (basically what RFC1918 was for IPv4)~~ not entirely true, fc00::/8 is part of ULA, but it is not yet defined. Use fd00::/8 instead.
2001:db8::/32 is for documentation purposes
You're not supposed to use fc00::/8, so it's just the fd00::/8 half that's the new ULA.
IMO they shouldn't have allowed ULA as part of the standard. There's no good reason for it.
I use ULA prefixes to ensure the management interfaces of my devices don’t leak via public routes.
It’s one of the unique parts of the standard IPv6 stack not back ported to IPv4, that an interface on any host can be configured with multiple addresses. It permits functional isolation with the default routing logic.
IPv6 is far from perfect, but the majority of the arguments I’ve seen against deploying it are a mixture of laziness, wilful ignorance, and terminal incuriosity.
I might be misunderstanding. It's definitely possible to have as many IPv4 aliases on an interface as you want with whatever routing preferences you want. Can you clarify?
I agree with your stance on deployment.
Configuring multiple v4 addresses on an interface is a kludge, typically only used on hosts which apply inter-network routing logic. It’s an explicit, primary function of the standard v6 specifications.
With v4, you would use either RFC1918 and NAT, or plumb a public address to the host.
With v6 you should use a ULA and an address with a public prefix, and selectively open ports/services to on appropriate address.
An example is the file sharing and administration daemons on my NAS are only bound to its ULA. I don’t need to worry whether it will accidentally be exposed publicly through fat fingering my firewall config, because it will never route beyond my gateway.
Yeah there is: not breaking all your internal traffic when the wan link goes down and you lose your prefix.
I can potentially see that scenario if your transit provider is giving you a dynamic prefix but I've never seen that in practice. The address space is so enormous there is no reason to.
Otherwise with either of RADVD or DHCPv6 the local routers should still be able to handle the traffic.
My home internal network (v6, SLAAC) with all publicly routeable addresses doesn't break if I unplug my modem.
IIRC, there are some sloppy ISPs who are needlessly handing out prefixes dynamically. ISPs seem to be doing everything they can to fuck this up, and it seems more incompetence than malice. They are hurting themselves with this more than anybody else.
When you want IPv6 but your ISP says “no”
I also know that I cannot tell the difference between two IPv6 addresses because they all merge into an indiscernible blur inside my head
However I can see when any IPv6 begins with 2a02:12xx:: then it's Swisscom (biggest swiss ISP). But I can't remember any of their hundreds of IPv4 prefixes.
I have a feeling making it all CAPS would have made it just a bit easier.
That, or using monospace fonts for it everywhere.
Back when we had to dial ipv4 addresses from memory
Ahh i knew u can do some fancy tricks to spell words inside ur ipv6 addresses apalrd did a good video on migrating to ipv6