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I figure the subsequent avalanche of user pressure on isps will solve the problem in a week or so. Added bonus: during that week productivity will be at an all time high.
There are unallocated /8's that are privately routed. A lot are controlled by the U.S. DoD. But every time they come up, the response is always "so what? use IPv6!" I generally agree. Putting those in circulation would actually be a bad thing. It would allow IPv4 to continue to zombie-walk for another couple years, maybe another decade, and in so doing to become more deeply entrenched, harming us in the long-run. IPv…
Not sure about cloud providers, but several VPS companies already offer discounts for you to go IPv6 only.
I cant get ipv6 to work with this router, tho if i connect laptop directly to the wan cable i get an ipv6 address without issues and can use google via ipv6 etc
If a slightly unshaven geek like me cant get ipv6 to work easily what hope is there for rest of the world :(
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I would argue that Ford (and the other multinationals) have more need of an /8 than any university that is just in a single city.
I would agree, and say that universities with an entire /8 probably shouldn't have them anymore either. That's a case where it definitely made sense early on, but stopped making sense quite a while ago.
Steve Reeding, one of the creators of IPv6, shares his crucial insight on how some networks adapt, survive, and impose themselves [1]: "I have a different take on that. Yes, a lot of people were dissing tunnels yesterday. I'm actually a big fan of tunnels. I think the way the IPv4 Internet was built originally was basically by tunneling over the phone system. Ignore, you know, getting leased lines, putting computers…
That's a very interesting view and the closest thing that I've seen to date for a practical, workable solution to the current mess. I really like that. How are RBLs and other useful internet institutions that work on the basis of IPv4 addresses along the way with their IPv6 adoption?
It would take some time to adapt implementations. I speculate this gives attackers some opportunities to use old-style hacks that were largely mitigated, but suddenly re-appear with IPv6.
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We are between step 2 and 3. Looks like a /22 is $500 currently: https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html .
Hmm. I would argue that we're still in step -1, though the clean shaven folks have finally started listening to the neckbeards in a few circumstances and are slowly moving around towards step 0. Most people still can't actually route IPv6 over their tubes without going through a tunnel broker. At least for home, small office, and companies that aren't tech heavy, it's still firmly in the neckbeard camp.
It would be nice if certain websites we all use every day supported v6 better... firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has no AAAA record firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA twitter.com twitter.com has no AAAA record firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA cloud-images.ubuntu.com cloud-images.ubuntu.com has no AAAA record firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA ubuntu.com ubuntu.com has no AAAA record ...
This is the recovered pool that's finally running out, so short of reclaiming something drastic like the class A block 10 (you know, a really really bad idea), dang. Anyone know what IPv6 adoption is looking like these days? Google is showing like 3% of their connections are native to it [1], which does not look promising. 1: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...
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Hmm. I would argue that we're still in step -1, though the clean shaven folks have finally started listening to the neckbeards in a few circumstances and are slowly moving around towards step 0. Most people still can't actually route IPv6 over their tubes without going through a tunnel broker. At least for home, small office, and companies that aren't tech heavy, it's still firmly in the neckbeard camp.
Well, you definitely can route IPv6 over the public backbone. If you get an IPv6 address in SF and I get one in NYC, we can already talk to each other. That is how we got past step -1. Dual stack is now a pretty standard setup on a non-trivial, though still small number of networks. For example, Linode, Comcast, T-Mobile all support dual stack on at least some of their networks. What we have not quite reached yet is…
Time to start auctioning IPv4 ranges. Is there anything in the terms that prevents such an auction? Putting a price on ranges should redistribute IPv4 ranges to those who need them. It's certainly simpler than coming up with a set of rules for usage.