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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Context:

People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)

... and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/

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[–] 56 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I’m not using it because by and large it’s not implemented properly on consumer hardware, and my ISP doesn’t care if their IPv6 network is broken.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've tried multiple times to go IP6 only. I mostly thought, despite my reasonable understanding of IP4, that I was the problem in trying to set it up. I found my dns host was being forgotten multiple times a day, set to something invalid, then it would time out and revert back to the working one. I couldn't figure out how to connect two computers together for Minecraft.

    Now I hear it was just garbage consumer hardware and software? Fuck me. So much wasted time and effort to say nothing of believing I had turned into a tech idiot.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You’re not an idiot. You’re using tools that don’t really do what they claim because it wasn’t considered an important use case.

    IPv6 is great, but we haven’t seen enough pain yet to really drive adoption on the home LAN.

    My solution uses the ISP box to deliver stateless auto conf, and bridging a consumer router. I can’t open ports but at least I get an IP.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Do you have an example? Because it works great on openwrt, dd-wrt, pfsense, opnsense, unifi, mikrotik....and then if you're using the isp equipment it works out of the box.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    TP-link can’t open ports in the v6 firewall neither can Linksys and it doesn’t support DHCP forward so literally was incompatible with my ISP implementation. Some current TP Link router sold at Walmart don’t even have an IPv6 firewall.

    Open source works great. Can’t speak to unifi never seen it for sale here.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re using open source third party firmware and higher end networking gear as an example. Of course they work. Shitty consumer grade brands aren’t in the same class

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That is not the case for every country though. In France and Germany for example almost 3/4 of google requests are via IPv6.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting that India has such a high percentage. I'm guessing it's because most of their network infrastructure is probably relatively new and so they can include support right off the bat, instead of having to retrofit stuff?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not much choise i guess. Usa and europe grabbed the majority of available ipv4 space. Asia got a bit. And only scraps and leftovers for africa and latin america.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah but then you look at China and it's at 4%. Maybe they got into the game early enough to get enough adress space for it to be serviceable?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    China block much of the internet so who knows with china. Do not know if anyone have real china numbers of IPv6 deployment. They also had their own "IPv9" that was rumored some years ago that may or may not have been used internally.

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