We don't talk about IPv5
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Is this IPv5?
Fun fact: IP version 5 is actually reserved for the Internet Streaming Protocol.
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My favorite thing to use IPv6 for is to use the privacy extension to get around IP blocks on YouTube when using alternative front ends. Blocked by Google on my laptop? No problem, let me just get another one of my 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IP addresses.
I have a separate subnet which is IPv6 only and rotates through IP addresses every hour or so just for Indivious, Freetube and PipePipe.
This is exactly why ipv6 was never widely adopted. There's too much power in a limited IP pool.
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I see your satirical IPv6 meme and raise you the highest quality IPv6 evangelism you'll ever see.
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That's nothing that can't be done with a good set of firewalls on IPv6.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Good luck trying to find industrial stuff that supports IPv6, hell most of it is still serial.
I have legit heard that serial is security mechanism because it cannot communicate long distance like ethernet.
Of course you can do IPv6 magic that hides IPv6 from the end device, but nobody understands how that magic works.
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Was?
It's still in progress..
I'm fully transitioned. The first step was getting an Internet provider that featured it. I had to change providers for that. Then I had to find equipment that worked. Some of the things that have an early implementation of IPv6 don't actually work. It's like they never actually tested it. Then I had to integrate IPv6 in the way everything worked. I'm a big user of unique local adresses, which I feel isn't a really well known feature.
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Surely we can do better. Why not IPv10? That's 4 higher than 6!
not sure if you're aware thats a real thing https://www.ipv10.net/
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My favorite feature of IPv6 is that there are so many addresses available. Every single IPv4 address right now could have its own entire IPv4 range of addresses in IPv6. It's mind-boggling huge.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]you could assign every square meter of the planet an ip and use it for location, and still have addresses left over
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not sure if you're aware thats a real thing https://www.ipv10.net/
Guess we have to crank it up to 11, then.
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If you don't have ipv6 internally, you probably can't access ipv6 externally. 6to4 gateways are a thing. 4to6? Not so much.
And this is why ipv6 will ultimately take another 20 years for full coverage. If it was more backwards compatible from the starting address-wise then this would all have been smoother. Should have stuck with point separators. Should have assumed zero padding for v4 style addresses rather than a prefix
If you don’t have ipv6 internally, you probably can’t access ipv6 externally. 6to4 gateways are a thing. 4to6? Not so much.
I'm pretty sure stateful gateways do exist, but it's a massive ball of complexity that would be entirely avoided if people just used native v6.
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In progress?
I can't even get an IPv6 address, even if I wanted to pay an obscene amount for a business tier.
You can get on IPv6 for free with a HE tunnel https://tunnelbroker.net/
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I hope nat burns in hell when ipv6 will become standard
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And I would consider a detailed argument on why it is more secure to disable it to be a good reason.
Personally? I consider an IT team who don't know how to secure an ipv6 enabled network to not be competent. But that is a different conversation.
It has less eyes on it due to it being less popular. It also introduces an extra vector of attack.
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Wait until we have IPv8, that‘s gonna byte us in the ass for real
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Oh, now that you mention it I've never tried to map a static DNS entry to a device without DNS. Welp, time to get thousands of raspberry pi's to act as IP KVMs!
That would imply en existence of display/usb outputs…
We’re essentially talking a bunch of embedded devices talking to each other. You can give them all the dns entries you want, but if they (or the programming environment) don’t support DNS lookup you might as well put your dns server in excel.
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not sure if you're aware thats a real thing https://www.ipv10.net/
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Awesome.
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I worked with one of the inventors of IPv6 for a bit of time, and I think knowing Carl really gave me an insight into who IPv6 was invented for, and that's the big, big, big networks — peering groups that connect large swaths of the Internet with other nations' municipal or public infrastructure.
These groups are pushing petabytes of data every hour, and as a result, I think it makes their strategists think VERY big picture. From what I've seen, IPv6 addresses very real logistical problems you only see with IPv4 when you're already dealing with it on a galactic scale. So, I personally have no doubt that IPv6 is necessary and that the theory is sound.
However, this fuckin' half-in/half-out state has become the engine of a manifold of security issues, primarily bc nobody but nerds or industry specialists knows that much about it yet. That has led to rushed, busy, or just plain lazy devs and engineers to either keep IPv6 sockets listening, unguarded, or to just block them outright and redirect traffic to IPv4 anyway.
Imo there's not much to be done besides go forward with IPv6. It's there, it's tested, it's basically ready for primetime in terms of NIC chip support... I just wish it weren't so obtuse to learn.
However, this fuckin’ half-in/half-out state has become the engine of a manifold of security issues, primarily bc nobody but nerds or industry specialists knows that much about it yet. That has led to rushed, busy, or just plain lazy devs and engineers to either keep IPv6 sockets listening, unguarded, or to just block them outright and redirect traffic to IPv4 anyway.
Its kind of interesting to me how conservative the IT industry is with stuff like this.
The industry loves to say "move fast and break things" or "innovate and disrupt", but that generally only applies to things that can be shat out in a two week long Python project (or shat out in 2 weeks after publicly funded universities spent years figuring out the algorithm for you). For anything foundational, like CPU architecture, operating systems, or the basic assumptions about how UI should work, they're terrified of change.
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you could assign every square meter of the planet an ip and use it for location, and still have addresses left over
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oh it’s way more than that!
After looking up some numbers, I note we could give every single square MILLIMETER on the planet its own entire IPv4 address space.
…And then every one of those IPv4 addresses could have its own entire copy of the IPv4 address space!
…And that would just be a drop in the bucket compared with IPv6! One good comparison I’ve seen is that you could assign an address to every atom on the surface of the earth (but not inside it) and have enough left over for 100+ more earths.
Rough math for the square millimeters:
The surface area of the earth is roughly 510 trillion square millimeters. Let’s round that up to a quadrillion or 10^15^.
The number of IPv6 addresses is 2^128^ or 3.4x10^38^. To be conservative again, let’s just round that down to 10^38^.
10^38^ / 10^15^ = 10^23^ IPv6 addresses per square mm of earth.
IPv4 address space is 2^32^ or around 4 billion. let’s round up to 10 billion or 10^10^.
So then 10^23^ / 10^10^ = 10^13^ IPv6 addresses per IPv4 address per square mm of earth.
10^13^ / 10^10^ =
1,000 IPv6 addresses
per IPv4 address
per IPv4 address
per square mm of earth.
And that was with the conservative estimates along the way. I think it would actually be tens of thousands.
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I hope nat burns in hell when ipv6 will become standard
Any day now brother
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NAT444 is shit. I can't even host a web server without routing it through a VPN, and my ISP can't work out how to provide an IPv6 addresses yet. Give it to me and I will work out how to use it.
Slight update - Just looked and apparently they had a goal of rolling out IPv6 addresses to all customers by earlier this year. I'll check my router config tomorrow and who knows. Maybe I will be able to get one now? Would be pretty sweet.
I am sorry to interrupt, my ISP gave me an ipv6 address, but I just can't access anything through it even when I specify it in the firewall, maybe they are blocking this functionality because they sell static ips.
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Wait until we have IPv8, that‘s gonna byte us in the ass for real
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Every atom of the universe should have its own ip.
