Comment by malfist
1 day ago
I'd love to do that, if my ISP would provide me an IPv6 address. Windstream doesn't provide IPv6s. They did a trial a few years ago rolling it out and then undid it.
It's crazy I can get fiber to my house in the US, but not IPv6.
Your greedy ISP won't provide you with IPv6 for financial reasons - it's cheaper not to change or upgrade systems. This won't change until they start to provide you with IPv6 for financial reasons, as they reach the point where going to IPv6 starts to be a cost saving for them rather than having to run two different networks at once, with a whole bunch of CGNAT to keep the IPv4 part of it going.
iirc, hurricane electric was offering IPv6 via tunnelling somehow.
https://tunnelbroker.net
I was doing this back when I had BT in London, my internet speed back then was pretty abysmal and it would randomly drop routes- ironically this tunnel actually improved my internet (because of the routes not being dropped, not the speed).
They do this for free because they're a tier 1, meaning everyone pays to connect to them and they benefit from having more things hosted on their network. It's free because your ISP pays for it.
And they can always tell your ISP if they don't like paying to connect to the tunnelling server they should just implement v6.
Unfortunately, he.net tunnels have terrible reputation, so if you use this for your regular browsing, you're likely to get hit with more captchas than if you're on a cgnat with well behaved neighbors. Some sites will just not work, with no errors, because why waste errors on networks with bad reputation.
It wasn't always like this, but it was for me the last time I tried.
I think I had HE and Surfnet tunnels in the very late '90s already. IPv6 sure is taking some time...
Annoyingly, this will not work over CGNAT as far as I know - the tunnel needs 'both ends' to be accessible directly from each other I think.
There are cgnat provides who don’t also give you a real ipv6? Evil.
Try getting a /24 these days without paying a fortune. We NAT everything and still wait for IPv6 because the ISP CPE barely supports it. Land analogy is apt, landlords everywhere.