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IPv5 is for the lame, we already have IPv9 for a long time
https://yoursunny.com/p/summer-host/ipv9/
same here, just why???????????
also, IANA admitted it shit it's pants in the 90's, google it up, i forgot to bookmark the video on YouTube.
deal, we accept unicorn tears or beer
, still 
the fella
Ahaha, thank you mate
I wonder how many places accept email on IPv6, and how many(that weren't setup to prove a point) only accept on IPv6
its exactly same amount of work as ipv6. totally break all existing case. NOT backward compatible. Everything that need change to support ipv6 would need to change in same breaking way to support ipv5, you do not gain anything
size of ipv6 remove next problem. adding one more . in v4 just extend problem another few year
Anytime
All of them.
MSFT especially.
Port speed: 1.544 Mbps via FastEthernet cable, unlimited transfer.
i think you get that over COAX, so definitely the port speed is over sold
I have my own IPv6 subnet and offer these services to my clients, but I still use IPv4 for now because it's easier to memorize. Even the habit of memorizing IPv4 is slowly fading, though, since I use DNS 99% of the time anyway.
pretty much the majority.
both ISPs I use have IPv6.
most my servers are ipv6 only as well.
there are couple of NAT servers, only 2 have dedicated v4 are GCP and oracle free vms.
@host_c ipv6 sales were the thing that finally made me setup and figure out ipv6, now I enable it on all my servers that have it. It's actually super handy on my two $99/yr dartnode dedis... I have them both running proxmox with the host only assigned the ipv6, which lets me use the ipv4 directly on an opnsense vm to publish services.
@yoursunny
Nobody has ever asked for my ipv6 test ip but feel free to test it. 2001:550:5a00::1
It works.
I'm bit envious. Neither of my 2 ISPs has IPv6 support.
Please sir, I've got a family to feed.
My ISP doesn't offer IPv6, but I now have it active on all my VPS's that offer it.
Never liked it at first, because the IPs were too long to memorize.
Once I got used to it, I found it kinda fun doing large file transfers between VPS's over IPv6.
Neat to see all the IPv6 addresses in qBittorrent, too.
ipv6 is cool n all but i mostly go for ipv4 only even if i have duelstack, ipv4 works fine like Debian, if it aint broke, don't fix it.
Will you include this in every offer post from now on, adjacent to the test IPv4 ?
its was not easy. complained for years.
Most ISPs have their core network with v6 deployed.
One way to check is to goto FB or YT, get the CDN domain and check for AAAA records.
If there is you can ask them to deploy to end users.
I run ipv6 everywhere, ip4 is just fallback on public facing servers. Most of my services run behind nginx proxies that terminates ip4 and proxies it to ipv6.
If a server does not have ipv6 it's a dealbreaker for me. All my management, backup and internal dns is ipv6 only so it has to be there. Ip4 I can do without, have not really relied on it for the past 10 years or so.
As for ipv5, that name was used by the ST (streaming protocol), a protocol from the early 80's or maybe even late 70's that focused on QoS and deliverability. It actually ran over ip4 so it was never meant as a replacement, more like an improvement. It kind of just died out when connectivity improved everywhere and things like RTP took over. However, it had already been assigned the protocol number 5 in the ip header, so it took the name ipv5 with it to its grave. Not missing it one bit, I remember cursing it because it was a bitch to use, the idea was that it should reserve bandwidth for certain services whether they used it or not, which made it a nightmare to configure when you were using analog lines or in best case some ISDN that that dynamically swapped between 64 or 128 kbps. Yeah, I'm that old.
I have included ipv6 in every offer for the last several years. I just didn't think about including it as a test ip and nobody ever asked. But I will from now on.
Important correction:
The short list is picked from routed IPv6 hall of fame, not "hall of shame" that was a typo.
It would be based on editor's somewhat subjective assessment on the quality of IPv6 implementation, and the provider's attitude toward IPv6.
A provider would be disqualified if:
You don't even fulfill the objective requirement (i.e. routed /64).
Since it is uncommon to have native IPv4 in my country and that tunneled IPv4 performs like dog shit a service which is only reachable via IPv4 is like it is hosted via 56k modem, So I don't use services which don't offer IPv6. Sadly I still need github from time to time and cloning a gitrepo with two digit kbps speed sucks. Via IPv6 I get 1 gbps.
Get a decent vps with both ipv6 and ip4 and tunnel all the ip4 traffic trough that.
That's what I do with all my ipv6 only servers that needs to talk to github, some apt repos and every other service that are stuck in the past.
Now that's a solid use case! Some good ol' security by obscurity, where the obscurity actually makes a difference.
Hopefully, he meant "harder to find" not as a security measure but rather significantly less exposure to untargeted Internet-wide scans to keep logs clean from noise.
Is there any tutorial or case use scenarios out there for IPV6 ? I have always disabled it on my home computers but if it benefits hosting or VPS I might take another look at it.
Still pretty low for me overall, most traffic is still IPv4.
I try to enable IPv6 where possible, but in practice it really depends on the provider and how well it’s supported across the stack(