Comment by TobTobXX
14 hours ago
/me searching through all the mobile network providers in Switzerland (a technologically advanced country) and not finding any.
Seriously, this drives me mad. There is NO WAY to get IPv6 on mobile networks in Switzerland. Neither Swisscom, nor Sunrise, nor Salt, and of course no reseller.
And Android handles this particularly poorly. I have some servers set up in my tailscale network on private IPv6 addresses, but android doesn't query AAAA addresses if it has no ::/0 route, so I HAVE to route all my traffic through my VPN which often creates other complications (with corporate wifi etc.)
I am in the same situation. However, I have found that there's a workaround/hack to make Android 'think' it has IPv6 connectivity. Instead of routing ::/0 through your VPN, simply add these two routes to your devices:
They don't need to be actually accepted by your VPN. They only need to exist in Android's routing table for it to start using AAAA lookups.
The drawback is that this breaks happy eyeballs, and you may notice slower response times on requests (since now your phone will start by quering AAAA results first which always fail for sites not on your VPN, and then fall back to the A result). In practice however I haven't really noticed any difference.
I get your frustration. But not having access to IPv6 personally does not mean IPv6 is dead. It's very much alive and handles considerable amounts of traffic.
Well ok, not dead. Dead sounds final and I still think that we will get more IPv6 deployed in the future. And I set up all my servers as IPv6-first. So no, I don't think IPv6 is dead.
But I'd claim it failed completely. Many very public services (eg. github.com, sentry.io, office365.com, archive.org) outright don't support it. And the fact that infrastructure providers (like mobile network carriers) don't support it either, proves that it is far from "alive". In fact, I'd say it is deader than MMS, Fax and landline. For these I can still get service. For IPv6 (on the phone) I can't.
It only failed to fully replace IPv4. But it runs perfectly fine along IPv4 and is very much alive. It replaced IPv4 where it was needed and didn't where it doesn't matter yet.
Email didn't replace letters on paper. But I wouldn't say email failed completely.
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To be clear, 'TobTobXX' isn't 'cyberax'. 'cyberax' is claiming that IPv6 is dead, whereas 'TobTobXX' is -quite justifiably- complaining that both his local cellular ISPs and Android suck.