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[–] aarroyoc@lemuria.es 96 points 7 months ago (5 children)

IPv6. Lack of IPv4 addresses it's a problem, specially in poorer countries. But still lots of servers and ISPs don't support it natively. And what is worse. Lots of sysadmins don't want to learn it.

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Am sysadmin, can confirm I don't wanna learn it.

[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

Also a sysasmin, really don't wanna learn it...or have to type it on the daily

not a sysadmin, but i admin a system or two, have yet to learn it myself, but will eventually learn it.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

My university recently had Internet problems, where the DHCP only leased Out ipv6 addresses. For two days, we could all see which sites implemented ipv6 and which didn't.

Many big corpo sites like GitHub or discord Apperently don't. Small stuff like my personal website or https://suikagame.com do.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

github is so stupid with that, it's actually funny

[–] Mythnubb@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

That's a fun little game there!

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 7 months ago

Lots of really large sites are horribly misconfigured. I had intermittent issues because one of the edge hosts in Netflix ‘s round robin dns did not do MTU discovery properly.

[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

IPv6 is great, but NAT is quite functional and is prolonging the demise of IPv4.

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My isp decided to put me behind a CGNAT and broke my access to my network from outside my network. Wanted to charge me $5 a month to get around it. It's not easy to get around for a layman, but possible. More than anything it just pissed me off that I'd have to pay for something that 1 day ago was free.

[–] SandroHc@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Alk@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Set up a reverse proxy on another machine (like one of those free oracle cloud things). I can't go into detail because I don't know exactly how. I think cloudflare also has options for that for free. Either way it's annoying.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Cloudflare tunnel, and its alternatives, such as localXpose, altho the privacy is probably questionable, and a many of them require a domain.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NAT is functional as long as you like NAT, which im pretty sure nobody likes, so uh.

[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the only people that like nat are network admins, and ISPs.

Everyone else hates them. The rest don't care, but they wouldn't know a NAT if it hit them in the face.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Say this to my very large Canadian ISP who still doesn’t support IPv6 for residential customers. Last I checked, adoption in Canada was still under 50%.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

50%?? I fucking wish. In Spain we are at 5%. I finally got IPv6 in my phone this year, but I want it in my home, which is still only available as IPv4 even if they're the same ISP.