Can we now switch to IPv6? Pwetty pwease ☺️

There is now a literal waitlist for IPv4 addresses. And no jumping the line

RIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/31/ipv4_address_queue/

@terryenglish I get a /60 prefix from Comcast and run both IPv4 & 6 on my home network. It bums me out to see so many comments on that article bemoaning lack of backward compatibility when this “dual-stack” approach works well without the added complexity of NATing between the protocols. Since IPv4 “just works” at first glance I think it’s left a lot of people in the dark on how to transition or even why they should bother in the first place

@swaggboi I'm lucky too that I get a /56 I think from my ISP. Native IPv6 rocks. It seems that nobody knows or cares that IPv4 is broken. NAT has dramatically busted the IPv4 #Internet. It's nice to use IPv6 and see what an Internet that acutally works properly looks like.

@terryenglish a static /56?
@swaggboi

@fireglow @swaggboi I don't think that it's static. God that'd be nice to have a static prefix though. I think I have to pay extra for that.

@terryenglish I see, yeah a static one would be great. @swaggboi

@fireglow @terryenglish I use a ULA prefix in addition to the /60 Comcast delegated (via DHCP-PD) so that way my local DNS can point to these addresses rather than (the potentially changing) Comcast prefix: https://pastebin.com/052ZXt1s That address beginning with "fdc5:" is it, it's not routable across the internets sadly but it at least remains the same if Comcast delegates me a new prefix so my local DNS records will still work. Another benefit to IPv6: you can have multiple IPs!

@swaggboi@masto.rootdc.xyz @fireglow@social.firc.de @terryenglish@social.librem.one

Another benefit to IPv6: you can have multiple IPs!

Same with IPv4 they're just scare so you usually only get a /32 but you can get larger subnets.
With IPv6 the standard is to assign a /64 for residential which is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IPv6 addresses. That's enough to assign every cell in your body 450,000 IPv6 addresses and still have over 1.5 quintrillion IPv6 addresses left over to use for your home network.