Hacker News with Generative AI: IPv6

The mistakes and missed opportunities in the design of IPv6 (hanazo.no)
This is a series of articles of my musings on why IPv6 failed. Previous article. Most networking protocols over the history of computer networking has failed. What makes up a successful protocol is defined in RFC5218.

Networking, IPv6, Technology

35 points by marolafm 16 days ago | 71 comments

IPv6 Is Hard (jenslink.net)
Yesterday I read this toot (German) over on mastodon which starts with “IPv6 is hard.”

Networking, IPv6, Internet

240 points by miyuru 45 days ago | 438 comments

DigiCert removing support for IPv6 on their services (digicert.com)
On July 8, 2025, DigiCert will stop reusing existing WHOIS-based domain validations, regardless of whether previously obtained information is within the allowed 397-day reuse period and regardless of the WHOIS method.

Security, Internet, Digital Certificates, IPv6

16 points by bluehatbrit 87 days ago | 1 comments

IPv6-only Network based on Jool (taoshu.in)
In this post, I will share experiences of my experiment of how to setting up the IPv6-only network on Linux using the Jool1.

IPv6, Networking, Linux, Jool

82 points by unclet 87 days ago | 35 comments

Schrödinger's IPv6 Cat (ripe.net)
IPv6, a protocol developed in the late 1990s to address the anticipated Internet address exhaustion crisis, exists in a paradoxical state.

IPv6, Networking

43 points by minusf 113 days ago | 71 comments

Huawei allocated 2.5 x 10^33 IPv6 addresses (theregister.com)
Huawei has been allocated 2.56 decillion IPv6 addresses by regional internet registry the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). That's a lot.

Huawei, IPv6, Internet, Networking, Asia Pacific

8 points by rcarmo 117 days ago | 1 comments

TP-Link cannot get IPv6 firewall right (sim642.eu)
What led to two of my recent posts is TP-Link’s inability to get IPv6 firewall right on their routers.

Networking, IPv6, Security

5 points by dajoh 119 days ago | 5 comments

No NAT November: My month without IPv4 (infected.systems)
Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:

Networking, IPv6, Internet

223 points by LinuxBender 120 days ago | 162 comments

IPv6 networks do apparently get probed (utoronto.ca)
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, my home ISP recently changed my IPv6 assignment from a /64 to a (completely different) /56. Also for reasons beyond the scope of this entry, they left my old /64 routing to me along with my new /56, and when I noticed I left my old IPv6 address on my old /64 active, because why not.

Networking, IPv6, Security

54 points by goranmoomin 137 days ago | 50 comments

I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6 (utoronto.ca)
Hot take: NAT is good even in IPv6, because otherwise you get into recursive routing and allocation problems that have been made quite thorny by the insistence of so many things that a /64 is the smallest block they will work with (SLAAC, I'm looking at you).

Networking, IPv6, Security, Internet Protocol

39 points by deivid 150 days ago | 21 comments

Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03) (jeremyevans.net)
So there I was, going through life without giving a second thought to IPv6. IPv4 worked fine for me, and why change what isn't broken, right? Well, sometimes life changes, and you start work for a new company, and that company actually uses IPv6. At that point, learning IPv6 becomes important, I think we'll all agree.

Networking, IPv6, Home Networking

50 points by thunderbong 150 days ago | 54 comments

The realities of building an IPv6-only city – APNIC (apnic.net)

Networking, IPv6, Cities

17 points by voxadam 154 days ago | 8 comments

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 (theregister.com)
The chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center has a theory about why the world hasn't moved to IPv6.

Networking, Technology, IPv6, IPv4

36 points by beardyw 162 days ago | 51 comments

Captive Portal IPv6 Support (github.com/abdulkader-alrezej)
The IPv6Spot project is an open-source, free,The goal of this system is to advance the development of IPv6.

IPv6, Open Source, Networking, Software

41 points by abdrzj 162 days ago | 54 comments

The IPv6 Transition (potaroo.net)
I wrote an article in May 2022, asking “Are we there yet?” about the transition to IPv6. At the time I concluded the article on an optimistic note, observing that we may not be ending the transition just yet, but we are closing in. I thought at the time that we won’t reach the end of this transition to IPv6 with a bang, but with a whimper.

Networking, IPv6, Technology

226 points by todsacerdoti 165 days ago | 427 comments

Vietnam plans to convert all of its networks to IPv6 (theregister.com)
Vietnam will convert all local networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week.

Vietnam, IPv6, Networking, Digital Infrastructure, Technology

4 points by IgorPartola 168 days ago | 4 comments

Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 (theregister.com)
Vietnam will convert all local networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week.

Vietnam, IPv6, Networking, Digital Infrastructure, Technology

6 points by Feathercrown 170 days ago | 0 comments

Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 (theregister.com)
Vietnam will convert all local networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week.

Vietnam, Networking, IPv6, Digital Infrastructure

11 points by mfiguiere 170 days ago | 0 comments

IPv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery (wikipedia.org)
The Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) protocol is a security extension of the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) in IPv6 defined in RFC 3971 and updated by RFC 6494.

Network Security, IPv6, Networking

4 points by harporoeder 177 days ago | 0 comments

Support for IPv6 (backblaze.com)
If your systems are IPv6-enabled or enabling IPv6 is on your roadmap, good news—starting yesterday and continuing over the course of the next few weeks, Backblaze will be “flipping the switch” and turning on IPv6 for our S3 Compatible API.

Networking, IPv6, Cloud Storage

118 points by HieronymusBosch 196 days ago | 203 comments

Free, open source IPv6 Textbook (ipv6textbook.com)

IPv6, Networking, Education, Open Source

33 points by todsacerdoti 229 days ago | 1 comments

Discord flags lack of IPv6 as "intended" (github.com/discord)

Discord, Networking, Software, IPv6

6 points by rixthefox 236 days ago | 2 comments

OpenBSD IPv6 Home Internet Gateway with AT&T Fibre (jgoguen.ca)

OpenBSD, IPv6, Networking, Home Networking, AT&T

24 points by ecliptik 253 days ago | 7 comments

Why content providers need IPv6 (bernat.ch)