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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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A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the
poor to protect them from each other.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:19PM
The privacy implications of Google DNS are too large to even seriously consider using that piece of crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:25PM
What are the alternatives to Google's Public DNS?
I use something called IvyDNS which lets me block undesireable domains at the DNS level. It's like hosts files but on steroids because it can block entire domains and subs in one go (so I can block [*.]facebook.com instead of having to block every single hosts known as being affiliated with FB as you would have to do with a hosts file). Oh, and it constantly learns about new domains that should be blocked as well, so I have zero maintenance on my side if I don't want to maintain it.
I see no ads, I am not tracked online (pixel.facebook.com, google-analytics.com, etc...). My internet is faster because of it and my privacy enhanced.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @08:28PM
I am not tracked online
correction: I am tracked *less*, by fewer actors and without a central repository that would otherwise hold all that tracking data and serve it to the highest bidder.
Sure, each individual site still tracks me but they've long since outsourced this to the big ones like GOOG and FB so in practice, I'm tracked much, MUCH less...
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday May 05 2016, @10:31PM
There are worse things. I'm on Suddenlink and their DNS resolves pretty much everything to a Suddenlink IP and attempts https hijack. They want you to install their wildcard cert to make it possible. So I'm using the Google DNS servers until they get around to shutting that down, then it will be time to pay extra for VPN service.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @12:48PM
I used to run an open DNS server for people in circumstances such as yours. Then one day I noticed that the entire 100Mb/s was in use. Turns out some criminals were using DNS reflection attacks against someone else using my server, so that had to stop. As it turned out, a low-power Celeron can't handle processing iptables flood rules with the volume of traffic the crooks were sending, so bye bye public DNS server.
It was much the same story with NTP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @06:37PM
yeah, or you could use dnsmasq and dnscrypt-proxy and use the default nameserver or pick another.