@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.

Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)

• I mean they could've also gone the #DECnet approach and use the #EUI48 / #MAC-Address (or #EUI64) as static addressing system, but that would've made #vendors and not #ISPs the powerful forces of allocation. (Similar to how technically the #ICCID dictates #GSM / #4G / #5G access and not the #IMEI unless places like Australia ban imported devices.

I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...

• Personally I've only had headaches with #IPv6 because not only do I only have #IPv4only #Internet but my #ISP refuses to allocate even a singe /64 to me (but has no problem throwing in a free /29 of #IPv4's in with my contract!)and stuff like #HurricaneElectric / #HEnet's #Tunnelbroker fail face first due to #Geoblocking and the fact that #ASNs get geolocated, not their #PoPs...

If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!

@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject also every #Tunneling - regardless if #SSH or #VPN or whatever - will inevitably introduce #latency (unless you happen to be customer of a shitty #ISP with horrible #peering and thus can cut down on hops needed, which is AFAIK only a theoretical scenario)...

• Outside of circumventing #Geoblocking and bypassing #IP-based #Banning (i.e. for #Cheating) I've not seen any use-cases.

In fact I stopped using #HEnet #Tunnelbroker and #IPv6-#GIF-Tunneling because it created more issued than it solved on my #IPv4only #Internet connection…

Hold on a sec, now with a static IPv4 I could probably just extrude an #IPv6 subnet or two from my Hetzner-machine in .fi instead of a #HEnet tunnel in Stockholm...

@rail @lucy Worse is that workarounds I used for decades ain't cutting it anymore.

#HEnet's https://tunnelbroker.net isn't an option in the #Splinternet as #Geoblockibg is a thibg and for some asshole reason entire ASes get geolocated so even tho my PoP is in FRA / FFM I get GeoIP'd in the USA...

Goddamit!!!

And yes, they could just give me a /48 cuz they have that in stock but they refuse to do so...

Pinged my ISP about #ipv6 today, since I know their upstream already offers it.

Not 5 minutes later they reply that they're rolling it out this fall...I'll just pretend that it's because I talked with the installation-guy about it when they pulled the fiber before summer.

Spotify and Netflix are thoroughly confused by #HEnet tunnels via Stockholm, and I get to hear interesting interstitials from other parts of the world :-)

Reverse zones for #IPv6 tunnels from #HEnet are in our #BIND9 😀

Of course there's always a "0." missing somewhere.

Now onward to script some dynamic DNS updates, I'm not going to write any more of this nonsense by hand!

I should have noticed earlier that with two NICs and only a single /64 #ipv6 allocation this would end in tears. Or at least SLAAC does, and for the various -devices that's really the only option.

Fortunately #HEnet is handing out /48s like candy.

Does anyone know what's up here at #HEnet #Tunnelbroker #ipv6?

traceroute6 to mastodon.social (2a04:4e42:200::347) from 2001:470:28:cef:..., 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
1 2001:470:28:cef:... 3.711 ms 1.251 ms 1.225 ms
2 tunnel853427.tunnel.tserv24.sto1.ipv6.he.net 120.680 ms 19.347 ms 19.479 ms
3 e0-22.core2.sto1.he.net 15.485 ms 15.332 ms 16.949 ms
4 *^C

Same for blog.fefe.de, but e.g. to Hetzner (in FI) it works just fine. Feels to me like something over there needs a kick.

I found that there's a fiber-company down the hill that offers twice the speed for half the price over my current provider. It seems they target more commercial customers, so I figure why not...

I feel I'm getting punished by my current provider anyway for not taking the TV-package etc.

New price would be ca. 40 EUR/500mbit. No IPv6, though, but I guess #HEnet tunnelbroker will work nicely.

Goodbye, he.net, it's been a good few years, but you seem to be letting your network quality rot on the vine, at least for London-brokered tunnels. Let the route48.org era commence!

#henet #HurricaneElectric #Route48