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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

maybe start with an adjustable setup:

  • rent a cheap vm, i got one for 1โ‚ฌ/month (for the first year,cancel monthly) from ovh currently
  • setup 3 openvpn instances to redirect all routes through the tunnel, one with ipv4 only, one with ipv6 only and one with both
  • setup the client on your mobile phone and your laptop both with all three vpns to choose from
  • have the option to choose now and try out ipv6, standalone or dualstack depending on what vpn you switch on
  • use this setup to blame services that don't support ipv6 yet or maybe are broken with dualstack ๐Ÿคฃ
  • rise from under-the-stone (disabling ipv6 only) to in-sunlight (to a well-above-industry-standart-level !!! "quick" new network technologies adopting "genious") ๐Ÿคฃ
  • improve your openvpn setup from above to be reachable "by" ipv6 too if you haven't done it from the beginning, done: reach the pro-level of the-late-adopter-noob-group

(if you want, ask for config snippets)

btw i prefer to wait for ipv8๐Ÿ˜ before "demanding" ipv6 from services i use ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I pay yearly more for IPv4 address space for virtual machines on my dedicated server than for that dedicated server itself _(ใƒ„)_/.

Let that thing die.

Monthly summary:

54.40โ‚ฌ - 30 IPv4 addresses
0.00โ‚ฌ - 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses
38.39โ‚ฌ - whole server for dozens of services

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Someone is using Hetzner. :) Yes let IPv4 fade away. Still what services are you running that require so many unique IPs?

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yup, the benefits don't outweigh the costs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what costs are there beyond just leaving it on in supported configurations?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

YMMV. Time, energy, compat*ability problems, unforseen issues which cost time debugging.

Again, I'm speaking for me -- there has to be a tangible real benefit and within networks even with 100 devices IPv4 does the job better than fine and better than IPv6 for some folks.

Not to mention its just plain easier to remember 4 octet sets of numbers running from machine to machine in an office than 6 or 8 or whatever.

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