👽 Paul Webb
Hmm, that's understandable. I thought we were going to run out of IP addresses soon, at least that's what videos promoting IPv6 made it sound like.
Mark Dain
We are (and have in some cases) run out of IPv4 addresses. Most free IPv4 addresses are held by ISPs and hosting providers and there's very few addresses that are freely available; they cost a lot of money. In some cases, compromises are being made. e.g. for a while, Azure VMs in the USA were assigned IP addresses that would appear to be from Mexico or Brazil as ARIN has run out of IPv4 addresses which means it's harder and more expensive to get an IPv4 address in the USA now. So long as there are lots of people still using IPv4, there will never be IPv6 only websites though, so there's really no rush to fix this for me.
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Mark Dain
As far as I know, the standard is fine but there's so much software that simply doesn't work properly. The router I'm using right now doesn't even have IPv6 enabled out of the box, you have to go on SSH and enable it. Contrast to the quick setup wizard that'll configure IPv4+PPPoE for you. IPv6 feels a lot like Linux; you simply cannot get anywhere without a terminal/shell, an IRC account, and a lot of patience. I've just run out of any enthusiasm at this point. It's just not bringing me any benefit for the amount of effort and money. Sorry to be so negative but IPv6 is never going to happen if it doesn't get easier.
👽 Paul Webb
Hmm, that's understandable. I thought we were going to run out of IP addresses soon, at least that's what videos promoting IPv6 made it sound like.
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👽 Paul Webb
That sucks! Hopefully 2017 will bring about improvements either to the spec, IPv6 routers, or both.
Mark Dain
As far as I know, the standard is fine but there's so much software that simply doesn't work properly. The router I'm using right now doesn't even have IPv6 enabled out of the box, you have to go on SSH and enable it. Contrast to the quick setup wizard that'll configure IPv4+PPPoE for you. IPv6 feels a lot like Linux; you simply cannot get anywhere without a terminal/shell, an IRC account, and a lot of patience. I've just run out of any enthusiasm at this point. It's just not bringing me any benefit for the amount of effort and money. Sorry to be so negative but IPv6 is never going to happen if it doesn't get easier.
7y, 13w
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Mark Dain
I've not had IPv6 working since November 2016 and that's now 2 routers I've gone through trying to find one that fucking works properly. I can't afford to replace the DrayTek router that just worked and the 2 replacements I've tried, one does not have IPv6 support and the other is impossible to configure. Honestly, fuck it. I just don't care anymore. IPv6 is too hard to configure.
👽 Paul Webb
That sucks! Hopefully 2017 will bring about improvements either to the spec, IPv6 routers, or both.
7y, 13w
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Mark Dain
I've not had IPv6 working since November 2016 and that's now 2 routers I've gone through trying to find one that fucking works properly. I can't afford to replace the DrayTek router that just worked and the 2 replacements I've tried, one does not have IPv6 support and the other is impossible to configure. Honestly, fuck it. I just don't care anymore. IPv6 is too hard to configure.
7y, 13w
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👽 Paul Webb
That sucks! Hopefully 2017 will bring about improvements either to the spec, IPv6 routers, or both.
7y, 13w
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Eric
Our virgin router can send a useless carrier signal the entire length of our street but can't penetrate through to a room one rooms space away.
Mark Dain
Perhaps you can buy a mikrotik.com router? I've heard great things about them and they're quite cheap. I was considering buying one to replace my TP-Link router as it finally broke so much I had to do a factory reset and lost my beta IPv6-actually-works firmware.
7y, 19w
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Mark Dain
Word on the street is my company might be adopting #IPv6 sometime this decade! The JIRA ticket I've had open since May(!!) has just been assigned back to me with the name and number for a technician at our ISP for me to "discuss implementing" it with him tomorrow.
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Eric
Will you enjoy it? I began to loathe working from home when I did.
Mark Dain
I've only worked from home I think 3 times. The last time I hated it but only because during the, maybe half a year, between the last time I WFH, we had implemented IPv6 on all servers but our firewalls and IP restrictions were only setup for IPv4 so it was a pain in the ass to get access to everything. I ended up turning off IPv6 on my work laptop. I hope this week to fix some of those problems. One issue is MySQL seems to not be able to do subnets, so I can't do root@[my:subnet/64] that simply doesn't work :( meaning I had to change over 100 servers on Sequel Pro to just be the hard coded IPv4 address.
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Martijn
My domain is coming up for renewal and I want to move to a better DNS provider. Any tips? I am currently paying them to provide DNS/nameservers but they still aren't IPv6 ready. ip6.nl/#!licit.li
7y, 44w
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Asko P.
I recommend iwantmyname.com or gandi.net.
Mark Dain
It looks great! Me being me, I couldn't resist so started checking out the setup. Nice to see valid HTML, it loads wicked fast and there's a decent SSL setup too (ssllabs.com/ssltes...). However, I did find a few small things that really concern me: - - Open ports (including MySQL!): shodan.io/host/178... - No IPv6 :( - No security HTTP headers: securityheaders.io... - Please look into these (in descending order of priority)
Asko P.
1) Those open ports may seem open, but they DROP any attempt to connect to them. 2) IPv6 is lacking behind the server API in use at the moment to communicate with the server, and its support is coming in June 3) I think I made everything a bit better now - If you stumble on anything else, I'd be happy to hear about it.
7y, 46w
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Asko P.
It's already live: webspot.xyz. There's just no way to sign up due to lack of payment system. (Oh and, ignore the part about the server software specs, I'll update them soon enough)
Mark Dain
It looks great! Me being me, I couldn't resist so started checking out the setup. Nice to see valid HTML, it loads wicked fast and there's a decent SSL setup too (ssllabs.com/ssltes...). However, I did find a few small things that really concern me: - - Open ports (including MySQL!): shodan.io/host/178... - No IPv6 :( - No security HTTP headers: securityheaders.io... - Please look into these (in descending order of priority)
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🦿 Lucian Marin
Networking layer is different for apps. It never dropped the server connection for me. In Safari it happens everytime like you said. It didn't happen in iOS 8 so maybe it's just a bug, not a feature. Push notifications when Apple can't get anything right? I will cancel my developer account. It's a waste of money.
Mark Dain
There's a variety of things it could be. Safari had trouble with t.co links some time ago which was due to HTTP/2. Sublevel has a number of fairly cutting edge technologies in the stack; HSTS, IPv6, New cipher suites and so on... Any one of these could cause issues. To say Apple can't get "anything" right because of a single issue is honestly kinda childish, especially when used to criticize APNS, which is an exceptionally reliable tool. It's never failed for me. Name a single company who makes software more reliable than Apple.
7y, 49w
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Mark Dain
"0/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only" I'm starting to hate TP-Link. I swear I can't get through a week without the router messing up and dropping traffic ( imgur.com/RT1HI5e ). Only a reboot will fix it and that always takes down IPv6 and it comes back up when the router feels like being worth PS75.
🦿 Lucian Marin
My Airport Express is too old to fully support IPv6 and I'm waiting for the next version with support for ac wireless. Between links work without spaces between brackets.
8y, 5w
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