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Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by Prolixium »

luckman212 wrote: post #2

The popular Hurricane Electric (HE.net) IPv6 tunnel broker service management page is offline due to what appears to be an expired domain.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by nticompass »

Prolixium wrote: post #3
luckman212 wrote: post #2

The popular Hurricane Electric (HE.net) IPv6 tunnel broker service management page is offline due to what appears to be an expired domain.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

At home, my ISP gives me native IPv6. At work, we don't have IPv6 (or it's just disabled on the router), so I sometimes use one to test stuff (I use 6Project).

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Prolixium wrote: post #3
luckman212 wrote: post #2

The popular Hurricane Electric (HE.net) IPv6 tunnel broker service management page is offline due to what appears to be an expired domain.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

I've been thinking about starting. My current ISP (Comcast) has native IPv6 but you can't get a static prefix (maybe if you are a business class customer, IDK). It would be nice to have a prefix which is statically assigned to me for stuff that I host at home, so I've looked at doing an HE tunnel instead. The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by esseph »

Prolixium wrote: post #3
luckman212 wrote: post #2

The popular Hurricane Electric (HE.net) IPv6 tunnel broker service management page is offline due to what appears to be an expired domain.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

Tons.

A lot of US ISPs have no ipv6 configured.

(There are roughly 3,000 different ISPs in the US.)

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by luckman212 »

Prolixium wrote: post #3
luckman212 wrote: post #2

The popular Hurricane Electric (HE.net) IPv6 tunnel broker service management page is offline due to what appears to be an expired domain.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

I don't have statistics on that, but I can say that Verizon FIOS NG-PON2 service in the US (which is what I have) does not offer native V6, so yes, sadly I am forced to use a tunnel broker in 2026.

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #5
Prolixium wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really that popular nowadays? How many folks still use a tunnel broker at all in 2026?

I've been thinking about starting. My current ISP (Comcast) has native IPv6 but you can't get a static prefix (maybe if you are a business class customer, IDK). It would be nice to have a prefix which is statically assigned to me for stuff that I host at home, so I've looked at doing an HE tunnel instead. The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.

> The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them

cogent gonna cogent. i think you're still probably good for the most part.

Re: Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

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Post by happyPersonR »

Tbh ipv4 and cgnat im hoping at this point will go the way of POTS and be something we force turn off. There are differences between how ipv6 works and v4 ….

But I’m not sure the cost of running these shims for forever is worth what they’re holding back.

The only question remaining in my mind is if the world is ready for ipv6 … but maybe it’s better if we at least set a date.

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