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posted by n1 on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-yet dept.

APNIC reminds us that "there are now a large number of ISPs, data centres, cloud services, and software that now support IPv6" and "enabling IPv6 can be as simple as clicking a button on your WiFi router."

I turned it on, with Comcast I received an IPv6 route but no DNS server. Fortunately, Google Public DNS has unmemorable addresses, which I was able to configure manually.

2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844

It works. "There's only one thing left for you to do: Turn it on!"

[ ed: What are the alternatives to Google's Public DNS? ]


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  • (Score: 1) by webnut77 on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:00PM

    by webnut77 (5994) on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:00PM (#342178)

    When I finally got IPv6 on my Comcast connection, I asked a Customer Service Representative about getting static IPv6 addresses. She told me yes they have them and they're just like IPv4 addresses; $25 for five, $10 for one, etc.

    I though to myself: Isn't that like trying to charge for cups of ocean water?

    I set up a IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel with Hurricane Electric and got a static /64 for my server and a static /48 for my LANs. It works really well.

    Anyone else irritated because Google doesn't support DHCPv6 on Android?

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:22PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:22PM (#342218)

    Aren't people like you the reason we ran out of IPv4 addresses?

    "Yes of course I need 1024 addresses."

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:42PM (#342235)

      There are 42,535,295,865,117,307,932,921,825,928,971,026,432 possible public facing ipv6 addresses. Every man, woman and child on the planet could take 10 million addresses each and that would still leave 99.9999999999999999998% of the address space available.

      Put that in your smike and poke it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @09:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @09:25PM (#342250)

        Challenge accepted!

        • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday May 05 2016, @10:24PM

          by Gaaark (41) on Thursday May 05 2016, @10:24PM (#342277) Journal

          Pics?
          I'd like to try it myself, but am wondering how you get into that position to do it? Any suggestions?

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          --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
      • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @11:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @11:13PM (#342294)

        Every man, woman and child on the planet could take 10 million addresses each...

        Does this count my newborn son, who is about 7 hours old at the moment?

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @03:02PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @03:02PM (#342574)

          Your kid is just 7 hours old and you are on soylent making random useless posts?
          You are going to be a great parent!

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @10:47PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @10:47PM (#342735)

            Yes, you should be standing by the bedside staring at mother/baby ready to jump at a moment's notice, even if they are sleeping because, oh I don't know, they just went through a fucking childbirth seven hours ago?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:48PM (#342241)

      1024 IPv4 addresses for me, 1024 IPv4 addresses. Troll a site, ban for me, 1023 IPv4 addresses left.

  • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday May 06 2016, @12:52AM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Friday May 06 2016, @12:52AM (#342334)

    What is your package with Comcast, and what is your hardware used to connect to them?

    You have done as I intend to, but I needed to buy an additional router for this purpose. My firewall does not allow for GRE tunnels to originate from itself; only through itself, and so I needed an actual router to... act as a router.

    I also would like to know where you have registered anything of importance.

    I wanted to get a IPV6 range that was portable, having missed the IPV4 bandwagon because I was cheap, and my god ARIN sure is acting like those cups of water are worth their weight in dissoved precious metal ions. (I guess I am still cheap if I think that) And the proof they demand; why do I need to multihome this and demonstrate how many IPs I am using up, and that I am not subleasing these to others? Why is it thousands of dollars to get a range? Why is it Comcast won't even talk to me about it without a fiber connection to them because that's what they require for me to run BGP, because that's what they require to route IPV6 unless I buy a few statics off them that aren't really statics or bought at all...

    I totally understand this for IPV4; but the IPV6 ranges are just obscenely large. Waste not, want not, I too don't want to just squander it all.. but they are really hindering the adoption by keeping the assigment requirements so high. A medium business can afford the costs and renewals, the common person just seems to be forced into the cloud with an ISP that refuses to let them run servers. IPV4 scarcity isn't the issue anymore...

    Anyway, I wanted to take the plunge and do as you did, signed up and everything... but found that its not so easy to get IPV6 working on *non modern hardware*. Or comcast, without at least a business class modem. Otherwise the DHCP can reset (as they seem to do to me every few months.. its not consistent anymore) and everything I may put online through a tunnel broker suddenly becomes offline.