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IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by harg »

p4bl0 wrote: post #96

It amuses me to see that according to the map, France is best in class or close to be, while just a few weeks ago, my ISP in France stopped providing me IPv6 connectivity… The story is that at the beginning I had IPv6, and a shared dynamic IPv4 behind a CGNAT, I asked for a rollback to a full duplex static IPv4 and for three years I had both a static personal IPv4 and an IPv6. A few weeks ago my router went down and…

Are you with SFR? I also seem to only have a static IPv4 (I don't pay for it, but it's never changed in the lifetime of the connection). I asked for an IPv6 but they said it was not possible/difficult.

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by FridgeSeal »

imoverclocked wrote: post #11
usui wrote: post #5

It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it. I thought I would see IPv6 take over in my lifetime as the default for platforms to build on but I can see I was wrong. Enterprise and commercial companies are literally going to hold back internet progress around 60 to 75 years because it's in their best interest to ensure users…

ISPs often fail to do this because there is always someone in the hierarchy who says, "nobody is demanding it."

I worked at a place where they refused to run it _anywhere_ because a couple of people were insistent that it was “insecure”.

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by harg »

Interesting to see Spain having such low IPv6 adoption. Perhaps that's exacerbated the issues caused there by blocking IPs during football matches that we've seen mentioned in recent HN posts.

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by jl6 »

Everyone's saying progress is slow, but maybe this is just how long it takes to do massive decentralized global migrations affecting billions of people. What are we comparing against? Maybe the ICE-to-EV transition?

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by elevendroids »

sschueller wrote: post #100
jeroenhd wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recommend going through Hurricane Electric's multiple-choice tests. It's not exactly a how-to guide or course, but it'll mention all of the terms and technologies you need to look up to get things right. They'll even send you a free T-shirt if you make it through all of them. The most difficult parts for a homelab in my experience is getting Docker to play nicely. All of the other stuff sort of just works these day…

Where do I find that? https://www.ipv6.he.net/ has an invalid certificate and is the first result on Google.

You need to omit the "www" subdomain: https://ipv6.he.net

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by Sesse__ »

crote wrote: post #78
stackghost wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason why adoption has been so abysmally slow? Like surely all the big players have updated their networking equipment by now, and surely every piece of enterprise-grade kit sold in the last 20 years has supported v6. The only arguments I've ever heard against ipv6 that made any sense are that: 1: it's hard to remember addresses, which is mayyyyybe valid for homelab enthusiast types, but for medium scale…

Sure, the data plane supports it - but what about the management plane? I wouldn't be surprised if ISPs did all the management tasks through a 30-year-old homebrew pile of technical debt, with lots of things relying on basic assumptions like "every connection has exactly one ip address, which is 32 bits long". Porting all of that to support ipv6 can easily be a multi-year project.

> Porting all of that to support ipv6 can easily be a multi-year project.

FWIW, as someone who has done exactly this in a megacorp (sloshing through homebrew technical debt with 32-bit assumptions baked in), the initial wave to get the most important systems working was measured in person-months. The long tail was a slog, of course, but it's not an all-or-nothing proposition.

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by farfatched »

rtdq wrote: post #13

And still, in the year of our lord 2026, GitHub does not support IPv6. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

GitHub should absolutely support IPv6, but until then... transip.eu provide IPv6 addresses which transparently proxy to github.com: https://www.transip.eu/knowledgebase/5277-using-transip-gith...

You'll need to update your DNS server to include those as AAAA records.

Do providers like NextDNS or RethinkDNS allow these sorts of overrides?

Re: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

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Post by zeristor »

This is the global curve, it looks to be flattening I had thought it would be more asymptotic to 100%.

My company is ipv4 still, and some customers are having issues with ipv6 only connections.

Also we log the ip addresses, and that's only in ipv4.

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