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Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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Northern countries have lower adoption, I wonder if IPv6 works better in warm climates.

IPV6 works better in countries that didn't start with a legacy ipv4 infrastructure.

It works better for entities that were able to gobble up all of the ipv4 space before the rest had a chance in general

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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Yep, I do. About once a year I try IPv6, and give up after a couple weeks when I keep having weird transient errors that I can't pin down accessing websites and other remote hosts, all of which go away the moment I turn off IPv6. Maybe it's me, maybe I have a bad config or bad hardware, but it just doesn't work for me.

I have AT&T fiber. I've been running IPv6 for about 2 years now and haven't had any issues at all. iCloud Private Relay also works via IPv4/IPv6, but I have had to disable it once or twice. Who is your ISP? How do sites like https://ipv6-test.com/ and https://test-ipv6.com/ score your connection when you have IPv6 enabled?

AT&T fiber. Haven't tried those particular sites, but the ones I did try to test it all passed (but weren't as thorough as the ones you linked).

Next time I try I'll use those sites and see what they say.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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That’s a non-sequitur argument. Simply because your parent comment can identify the state of lights faster does not make them any faster at deciding whether to cross them because it doesn’t influence them to make different decisions based on the speed of their vehicle and then distance from the light.

it was a joke

This is 2022. Humor is verboten. You're cancelled.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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>I fill out 10x as many CAPTCHAs This a feature, not a bug. You can now identify a traffic light on a subconscious level 3x further away than the average driver that has an assigned IPv4. Where average drivers hesitate upon seeing a yellow light, wondering if they have enough time to go or not, you just know that a slight uptick in speed will get you through the intersection right as that yellow flashes over to red.

Wait, so that's how Elon is now training his autopilot? :)

Tesla are paying for labellers, aka Data Annotation Specialists:

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/data-annotation-spe...

But, I would be surprised if they don't also use 3rd party labelled data sets.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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Well… only about 10 years after headlines were fearmongering about the world breaking due to IP addresses not being available.

Hardly seems like “fear mongering”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion

Any given resource, as it becomes more scarce, goes up in price thus preventing there ever being zero of the given resource. The “world ending” result that fear mongering press outlets pushed is therefore not possible.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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The “breakage” is happening. It’s just in the form of crappy solutions like CGNAT and DS-lite to work around the shortage rather than the internet just not working at all.

also, ipv4 address space is becoming intrenched by large players because address pricing is becoming very expensive. Want to start a new service and require global connectivity, good luck winning IPv4 auctions because AWS is buying up all address space, even if they are not using it.

They buy it up because they expect it will be needed by their customers, among whom is the US federal government. However, the world did not end, addresses can still be had, and things are still functional. I would say that the doom saying press was alarmist.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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Well… only about 10 years after headlines were fearmongering about the world breaking due to IP addresses not being available.

The “breakage” is happening. It’s just in the form of crappy solutions like CGNAT and DS-lite to work around the shortage rather than the internet just not working at all.

So, people worked around the problem and that world didn’t break.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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To do NAT, you need to map (external) port numbers to (internal) IP addresses. This is done using connection tracking: tracking the state of the connection and the appropriate mapping. And connection tracking gets expensive at scale.

Yes, I understand how NAT works. But CPU/memory is going down in cost way faster than bandwidth demand is increasing. Regardless, its way way cheaper than buying IPv4 blocks clearly, otherwise people wouldn't be doing it. Edit: ok, the problem isn't hardware, it's comedy license fees. https://itprice.com/juniper-price-list/cgn.html $470k for a license to do CGNAT at 100gbit/sec. Surely these guys are opening themselv…

the cheaper solution is IPv6. if an organization is too resistant to change to implement IPv6, they're going to find themselves subject to exorbitant licencing fees in order to keep using the technology they are stuck on.

Re: 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6

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How? https://help.sonic.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000419168-Fiber-... Gigabit fiber from them explicitly says it isn't supported.

Whoa. I have no idea. I absolutely, 100% certainly, do though. I have Sonic gigabit fiber, and can use IPv6 to connect to remote hosts (and can connect to my LAN from remote hosts on specific ports I have open).

If your IPv6 prefix begins with 2602:240, then your router is using the Sonic 6RD tunnel.
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