Comment by willis936

6 days ago

Name one VPN service that supports IPv6. Perhaps the most existential reason IPv6 was invented was to make proxies obsolete.

Either you use address translation or you don't.

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willis936

iso1631 3 days ago

VPNs as a technology, gre/ipsec and wireguard. I assume others.

VPNs as a youtube sold service. Mullvad/mozillavpn for one

I get an IP of fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1 and it uses NAT66 to place me in New York despite being in the UK

  1.|-- fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1                                                        0.0%    10   78.6  80.2  78.6  82.0   1.2
  2.|-- 2607:9000:a000:34::1                                                          0.0%    10   80.1  80.3  79.3  81.2   0.7
  3.|-- ???                                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  4.|-- 2607:f740:70:101::1                                                           0.0%    10   82.2  83.9  79.8 104.3   7.2
  5.|-- 2001:550:2:d::4a:1                                                           90.0%    10   80.1  80.1  80.1  80.1   0.0
  6.|-- be3448.agr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (2001:550:0:1000::9a36:1a9)            60.0%    10   80.4  81.0  79.2  82.9   1.5

and on

Dagger2 6 days ago

Proton VPN?

And no, proxies were either never obsoleted or they were obsoleted by routing. Nothing to do with v6.

willis936 6 days ago
My bar for "support" is higher than "linux only and you need IPv4 to initialize".
https://protonvpn.com/support/prevent-ipv6-vpn-leaks
- Dagger2 6 days ago
  
  That's a valid criticism of Proton VPN, but if it works even just on Linux it's sufficient to demonstrate that v6 doesn't eliminate the possibility of VPNs.