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IPv6 Deployment Status

by fractalb on 7/19/23, 4:58 AM with 75 comments

• by ramshanker on 7/19/23, 12:06 PM

  All we need is ONE major website to declare 24 Hour brown-out for IPv4 and put a message something like "Contact your ISP to upgrade your connection".

  Alas, publicly traded companies....

• by menotyou on 7/19/23, 11:56 AM

  Citation "IPv6 was designed to restore the end-to-end model of communications with all nodes on networks using globally unique addresses. But considering this, IPv6 may imply privacy concerns due to greater visibility on the Internet."

• by eknkc on 7/19/23, 12:09 PM

  At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology.

  It used to be interesting to see the news about new ipv6 deployments, adoption ratings etc. Now I basically don't care.

• by pantalaimon on 7/19/23, 12:32 PM

  Does anyone know why German universities are so slow to deploy IPv6? Almost none has their website reachable over IPv6 or IPv6 on their internal network.

• by hyperionplays on 7/19/23, 12:44 PM

  If only the android devs would implement dhcpv6 ffs.

• by AndrewDucker on 7/19/23, 12:52 PM

  From the article, in millions of users:

    Jan 2018 - 513.07
    Jan 2019 - 574.02
    Jan 2020 - 989.25
    Jan 2021 - 1,136
    Jan 2022 - 1,207
  

  A growth rate of 24%

  Looking at Google's IPv6 stats:

    July 2019 - 29%
    July 2020 - 33%
    July 2021 - 36%
    July 2022 - 42%
    July 2023 - 44%
  

  Or an increase of about 3% each year.

• by BrandoElFollito on 7/21/23, 2:06 PM

  When changing my ISP I suddenly jumped in the world of IPv6 without any warning.

  Oh boy.

  I've been working in IT for 30 years, managed plenty of servers, host services at home, develop FOSS and whatnot but never got interested in IPv6.

  And I must say that this is a scary world. Some of my devices suddenly were getting their DNS settings from something else than the DHCP, I had to learn quickly about RA and other anagrams. I was super worried about the exposition of my services - something I completely controlled in IPv4.

  With this in mind, I think that IPv6 is too complicated. It does not have that sweet spot between "plug the green cable to the socket called ETH" and "I am going to try to squeeze some extra bits into the datagram".

• by SirMaster on 7/19/23, 1:41 PM

  What happens to all old software that is more or less "hard-coded" to use IPv4 addresses?

  Will there be an OS layer that can run an app in IPv4 compatibility mode of some sort?