We've created a large number of transition technologies for migrating from IPv4 to #IPv6 , but we still have to migrate the people. To that end I have a small proposal to help folk get used to the new way of doing things:

IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers, the most common representation being the dotted quad. There is, however, nothing stopping you from expressing that number in hexidecimal as in IPv6. So, if I want to ping my router's IPv4 address, this is a valid command: ping 0xac1f0301

Once you get used to seeing all your addresses in hex, expanding your mind out to more digits becomes a much easier exercise.

@hugo
#IPv6 in ESPHome works. Although not privacy perserving, (EUI64 lwIP dependency) but needs currently IPv4 for connectivity.

#IPv6only is a way to got.
I see no way to interact with the lwIP maintainers due to closing of all channels of communication for bug reports and feature requests.

#dns

@nuintari #esphome supports #IPv6

@nuintari
Most do dual stack but prefer v4 or need dual stack.
I have only 4 devices which actually are v4 only. #Sonos #SMA and #SolarLog

#IoT #IPv6 #internetOfThings #internetOfShit

Checking my home network for segments without IPv6. Found one! The #IoT network does not, and for a split second I think I should resolve this.

And then I laugh at myself, realizing that virtually no IoT device on the planet now, or in the distant future will ever support #IPv6.

#internetOfThings #internetOfShit

Is #ipv6 broken on #macOS 26 Tahoe? My mac seems to be ignoring automatic configuration from my router and manual config is getting me noplace. Or was it a router update (Orbi)?

Curious.

Still using 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 for #DNS?

Switch to more privacy friendly #EU based DNS Servers today.

#IPv4 185.150.99.255 / 5.1.66.255
#IPv6 2001:678:e68:f000:: / 2001:678:ed0:f000::

#DoH: https://doh.ffmuc.net/dns-query
#DoT/#DoQ: dot.ffmuc.net / doq.ffmuc.net Port 853

Donations to keep the service running: https://spende.ffmuc.net

#Privacy #HostedInEU

TIL: Wenn du #Wireguard nen #IPv6 only Tunnel bereitstellen lassen möchtest, scheinst du, zumindest auf #Android15, trotzdem ne #IPv4 Adresse konfigurieren zu müssen weil sonst Android keinen IPv4 Traffic mehr raus lässt (auch wenn nur ::/0 in den Tunnel gerouted werden soll).

@Golemde ich hatte eurem Consent Team vor 4 Wochen schon geschrieben. Aber leider keine Rückmeldung erhalten.
golem.de ist per #IPv6 nur sehr eingeschränkt nutzbar, da das Consent Management kein #IPv6 kann.
Das durch das AWS Hosting auch noch richtig Geld kostet, es nur per IPv4 zu betreiben.

Würdet Ihr das Bitte fixen?

@kitten @ellie I wish my #ISP would actually provide me with #IPv6 connectivity.

• Their garbage #CPE doesn't do #DHCPv6 properly!

At least I got static #IPv4…

#ipv6 #bdbos #sccon25

#bambi

...fiktiven Behörde – dem „Bundesamt für Muster und Beispiele“ (kurz BAMBI)...

Ein Bambi 🤗

https://de.linkedin.com/posts/bdbos_sccon25-ipv6-protokollstandard-activity-7387353105413095424-Ncb1

A colleague was for a meeting in China. I ask him to visit #bgptools to learn about the network he was on.
WiFi was dual stack 👍 but could not learn more; blocked access to bgp.tools due to previous abuse from this network.
AS4134 netname: CT-IPV6-IOT-ADDRESS 240e:878::/30 😁
#IPv6
@benjojo

finished landing the fix for this FreeBSD bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289198

this is quite fun. in one sense, it's a fairly serious bug: inet_net_pton() is completely broken for IPv6; it simply doesn't work and returns garbage output. but this bug has been present since 2006, when this function was first imported into libc, and no one noticed until August of this year when the PR was filed.

what i conclude this from is that literally no one uses these functions, and they should probably have never been imported in the first place. but, well, we can't remove them without breaking ABI compatibility, so now they're here forever, like an obnoxious uninvited party guest.

#freebsd #ipv6

SixSpotting fans: I've added new statistics to the front page: https://game.flyingpenguintech.org/

#ipv6

hello lazy web, I'm looking for solutions / DNS providers that support hosting Reverse IPV6 DNS zones . I would like to take control over my IPV6 #rDNS hosting for hosting my own #email server over IPV6.

Not keen on hosting my own primary DNS service yet.

#dns #rDNS #ipv6 #email #ryoms #selfhost

I also added some small rules for #Backblaze to #Delegacy #RPZ: https://codeberg.org/IPv6-Monostack/delegacy-rpz/pulls/69

@miyuru Do you want to add them to IPv6-dns-server as well?

#IPv6

The first such system I encountered was https://tgif.network/ , a #hamradio DMR network. Users would log in to the website and their hotspots would be shown based on whether they were connected from the same IPv4 address. They've moved away from this mechanism as all hotspots are now credential authenticated as well. Unfortunately, even with this change, the underlying software does not have any #IPv6 support.

The most recent encounter is https://adsb.fi/

> These endpoints are accessible for people contributing to adsb.fi by hosting a receiver. Your feeder IP address is automatically given access.

src: https://github.com/adsbfi/opendata/blob/main/README.md

adsb.fi is fronted by Cloudflare, so they could enable #IPv6 relatively easily, but they would have to revamp their feeder authentication.

I'm still running into websites that grant access based on your IPv4 address, presuming some other authenticated device coming from the same network. This image clearly has not clicked with the admins of these systems yet.

(image source https://chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2011/nat444-cgn-lsn-breaks/ )

#ipv6

Alt...

A black box with a bundle of cables labeled "1000 Users" coming in one side. Some of the smaller cables are labeled "OAK USR29" "SFO USR1" "SJC USR2" "SEA USR13" and "BAD GUY". The box is labeled "CGN NAT Network Address Translation". Exiting the other side of the box is a lone cable labeled "Single IPv4". The box contains a swivel arm meter with unit "Capacity" graded from 0-100%. The needle is very close to 100%.

ChatGPT was released a mere two years ago and people will not shut up about it.

But I'm the weird one because I won't stop talking about #IPv6.

@lw I can't tell whether you're joking.

No IPv6 at home in my region and when I last checked, no IPv6 at work.

I don't imagine gaining IPv6 during or before 2029. No joke.

#FreeBSD #IPv4 #IPv6

with IPv6 deployment reaching 80%+ in many places, we can probably remove IPv4 support from FreeBSD 17.0.

i'm sure this won't cause any issues for users because people constantly say that FreeBSD users are super evolved and up-to-date with the latest technologies, unlike those awful Linux users.

#freebsd #ipv6

I just found out test-ipv6.com is being retired in a couple months.

https://retire.test-ipv6.com/

#ipv6

I didn't have the script under version control, but by virtue of my having migrated it across machines I had enough breadcrumbs to re-create some of the version history. If you'd like to see what I've been working on: https://git.home.nivex.net/nivex/jool-clat

#ipv6

I got down a rabbit hole this evening of tweaking my Jool CLAT script. More parameter checks, support for the internal bridge I use for my VMs, and a proper wait loop for SLAAC to finish when determining the CLAT v6 address. It leverages jq to parse iproute2 JSON output to make things easier.

#ipv6

@Skorpy ... #IPv6

Must have been the wind...

Alt...

A screenshot of Google's IPv6 statistics, showing the rise in the number of users connecting to their services via IPv6 from 2008 to 2025, with peaks reaching up to 49.84% as of October 2025.