• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Efforts have been put in for several decades now

    I still remember all the hype around “IPv6” day about 12 years ago…

    Any day now…

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      5 months ago

      Honestly I’m on a IPv6 provider (with CGNAT for IPv4-only services) and everything works fine.

      I think people are just lazy.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t think it’s laziness, it’s financial incentive—there’s not much demand for something that might be quite a lot of work from a lot of companies’ perspectives.

        Hell, IIRC AWS only started supporting IPv6 completely on the cloud service that hosts a huge percentage of the internet’s traffic about 3 years ago

        I’m a little curious about your situation though—with regards to the CGNAT, does everyone on your ISP effectively share one (or a small pool of) IPv4 address(es)? Do you ever see issues with IP restrictions? (e.g. buying tickets for events, etc)

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          5 months ago

          Luckily I haven’t noticed any restrictions.

          My provider uses the same IPv4 for four different customers, and it lets each one of them use a different range of 12000 ports each (of course, the random user on ports 1-12000 is the “luckiest” one because he could theoretically host a website on port 80 or 443).

          But this means I can expose my Torrent client or Plex or any other services on a custom port, directly forwarded.

          It works really well in my experience. The provider is Free (France).