Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On 2025-05-18 09:59, Marc Haber wrote:

[apologies for falling into the Troll's Followup-To trap]
 Answers to my article in the advocacy group will not be read.
 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

GNU/Linux has total IPv6 capabilities but this is also fully
configurable.
>
Since I operate a standalone workstation that is only connected
to the Internet via Comcast, my system and software configuration
only includes IPv4.  (My local network certainly does not require
it.)
>
IOW, I don't need IPv6 and therefore I exclude it.

 That is a stupid idea. Your ISP might finally gain some clue and
finally enable IPv6 after it has been mandatory on the Internet for a
decade.
 

Does anybody use or need IPv6?

 North America is cursed with ample IPv4 resources. Not all continents
have that "luxury" of not being forced off an obsolete proto that
needs crutches to limp.
 

I suppose that since the vast majority of GNU/Linux users depend
on a distro and that since most distros automatically enable
IPv6 the answer is that most users have IPv6 enabled whether they
need it or not.

 A host with IPv6 enabled has absolutely no disadvantages over a host
that has IPv6 deliberately disabled. IPv6 doesn't autoconfigure if the
network doesn't offer it.
 IPv6 allows me to reach any host on my local network directly from the
network. I use this daily when I'm traveling or working at a different
site to access my infrastructure.

My ISP did a beta test of IPv6. Something must have gone wrong, they seem to have aborted and not deployed IPv6 to the public, except on phones.
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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.