Wondering how and why? With @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe and @BoxedTux@mastodon.social, I’m already running platforms that provide free VPS instances for educational purposes, learning and testing for years now. I guess, providing real AS and peering services (maybe even sponsoring LIR in cooperation [but this would cost money]) could also be very interesting for several ones, apart from the DN42 network. Happily looking for feedback…

#isp #network #networking #ipv6 #as #autonomoussystem #ipv4 #free #opensource #devops

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/12/campaign-turn-off-ipv4-on-6-june-2014-for-one-day/

We need to do this again. Next year will be the 15th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch day and the 10th anniversary of RFC 8200 making #IPv6 a formal standard.

@FoxVK I respectfully disagree. To start over would be to throw away the years it has taken to get the #IPv6 stack tested and integrated into countless operating systems.

After every talk I have given at a conference nearly everyone who speaks with me afterward says it was less difficult than they anticipated. IPv6 is no less confusing than any other protocol. It is just different than the IPv4 some people are used to.

IPv6 is practical today. I already use it on my mobile to communicate with servers running at my house without any extra layers.

The solution is not to start over. The solution is to finish the job.

Instead of a #portforward / #nat you shall just open ports with IPv6.

If you have a dynamic prefix this is an example of how such rule looks like. So it will even continue to work when you receive a new prefix.

Just make sure your DNS keeps pointing to the right address and BAM, you're a server operator, even on a dynamic prefix.

Have phun with #OpenWrt and #IPv6