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A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins
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It's honestly super simple to set up. Outside of your ISP config it's almost all autoconfig. 100% of the complication (at least for me) comes from knowing ipv4 first for 20 years and then trying to incorrectly map those concepts to V6.
As soon as I "let go" it was fine.
There's not a huge net benefit you're right. I mostly wanted to learn and I hope to be at the front edge of disabling ipv4 in the near distant future.
The benefit is being able to easily access devices from the internet. The same address works on the LAN and WAN. There's no port forwarding, so multiple devices can have the same port open. You also don't need to mess with a VPN if your IPv4 connection uses CGNAT.
Yeah dropping Nat is the biggest net benefit I agree but I think the avg person won't really find that much value in it when Nat works ok
And the average person is going to be using it without knowing. And never complain or anything.
Yea, prolly already using it.
NAT works fine until you get stuck on CGNAT and can't host anything on IPv4 without using a VPN.
Meh, nothing a VPN and a 3 bucks a month VPS can't solve...
yells at cloud in IPv4
I thankfully have never had the misfortune of cgnat
Yet.
As IPv4 blocks get scarcer and ISP's get more customers, they'll all eventually have to move to IPv4 CGNAT.
And that's completely fine for most people.
If you're not one of those people, then IPv6 is your saviour.
An issue I had the last time I tried to set up IPv6 up was pihole didn't work as well as I would have preferred. I assumed I just didn't set up things correctly and it's looking like that is the case based on the OP.
It kept resolving ad domains with their IPv6 address.
Who cares if it access them over ipv6. Their still blocked.
If ad domains can be resolved to their IPv6 addresses, it means that they are not blocked. Your device connects to the IPv6 address and serves the ad.
I can't remember what the problem was but my window to rollback was closing so I reverted back to IPv4 only and pushed it to another day.
That’s the reason I killed IPv6 on my network.
Thanks, I’ll give it a go!
I suppose it’ll be easy since my whole stack uses IPv4, so I’ll be simply adding another interface on without service disruptions.