It's older than a lot of new developers at this point.
For a little historical context:
Unfortunately some ISPs are total garbage and don't support IPv6 in 2023. Eg. https://lemmy.world/comment/269250
The solution to fix my development environment at my old job was disabling IPv6. Gives a good insight into the quality of the software...
IPv4 has been a standard for so long, and IPv6 is still actually kinda new. It's not that surprising.
For whatever reason, to this day I get a 403 error on http://google.com/ from IPv6. https://www.google.com/ works through.
Sometimes it's not your side that is broken.
http://google.com/ works fine for me, tested in Firefox and with curl -6. So it could actually be your side that is broken, although it is probably your ISP's.
My side works fine, Google just doesn't like the address. It's a tunnelbroker address, maybe they consider that bots... but only for some of their servers? It's weird
Oh okay, IMO IPv6 tunnels are worse than just disabling it, because it's basically just a proxy with IPv6, and since there's no encryption (at this layer) both your ISP and now the tunnel could collect your data, as well as added latency.
But I guess it's okay for experimentation or if you actually require IPv6 for something.
Hard disagree there. It is a tunnel, it is plenty fast if the intermediate node is close enough, and why would you want encryption at the IP layer.
It works great and gives me IPv6 that I otherwise wouldn't have with my ISP (Optimum), allowing me to connect to native IPv6 site and use all the IPv6 functionality I want (dedicated IPs for containers/VMs etc).
http://ipv6.google.com is a thing! If it works for you, you have working ipv6, if it doesn’t, you don’t!
I have all sorts of weird troubles with IPv6 at home. Facebook won't load some content, Netflix will frequently buffer and fail to load, Steam will almost never download things quickly.
Turn off IPv6 on my router, all my troubles go away.
sounds like it may be a wonky dns server. if youre interested, try re-enabling ipv6 but use something like cloudflare's dns in lieu of your ISP's
How hard would it have been to just add another octet or two? I like using my 10key and if I have to type letters for an IP address it's a bad system.
You'd still need to update and replace every system a packet would touch. Why just add another 8 or 16 bits and make it where we'd have to go through this entire painful process again? IPv6's design was "we never want to do this again".
An example of this "we never want to do this again" is only 1/8 of the v6 address space is currently marked usable for allocation. We have 7 more chances to change allocation methods without having to update or change any system.
Not to mention that we can “visualize” the segments and networks by the numbers. Makes it easier to recognize, as an analogy,
This state, that city, this road, that house.
Versus ipv6. Of course there’s so much space in v6 that it isn’t an issue except it’s such a pain to work with for people who tend to think in ipv4 octets and bit masks
IPv6 is also built like that and IP4 never was globally (except the country/region part), but it could be continued to be that router in the building, that device that network card in the device and even give separate IPs per service and serve them all on the same port.
There's way more to ipv6 than additional octets. I don't run ipv6 on my wlan (pretty much only for my mobile phone) because I can't be arsed to wrap my head around ipv6 autoconfig and NAT (or rather not NAT) whereas setting up dhcp is a breeze.
It really isn't, but vendors often make the IPv6 config optional and often don't have an auto-config wizard for IPv6 like they often do for IPv4.
Take Ubiquiti EdgeOS, setting up a PPPoE with IPv4 has a dedicated GUI wizard that shows up when you first log on, but IPv6 config is all confusing CLI commands.
IPv6 is haaarrrrrd because vendors are lazy.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's also impossible for many - myself included. My ISP doesn't provide me with a public facing IPv6 address.
I'm in Canada and none of the 3 ISPs I have available support ipv6 even on business connections.
You can probably guess the three and be wrong but also right, this is the case lots of places in Canada only less options.
I have one, they're awesome.
I MacGyvered a 2.5" HDD into it and idling it draws 5W, while my pi 3 draws 4-5W, so definitely worth a try, if you can get a cheap one.
Weird to see this, I had to do it this morning!
I have a fix to enable IPv6 but I'll do it after hours :)