Not to mention public cloud providers dragging their feet on implementing basic IPv6 functionality as if it was some sort of obscure feature instead of… the Internet protocol for the last two decades.
All the cloud providers I rent services from offer IPv6. It's only the really big ones that seem to be dragging their feet.
I suppose the multi-AZ stuff makes things more complicated, but my $5 VPS host had IPv6 like what, ten years ago?
This does have one small benefit: since none of the large cloud providers seem to do competent IPv6, you can avoid scanners, scrapers, and other log polluters on personal services by just hosting them on IPv6.
> Is anyone aware of why those decisions not to adopt IPv6 were made?
Because they have all the IPv4 address they need and so do not see a shortage, unlike those that are not mega-corps and are struggling:
> I work for a Native American tribe in the PNW. We scrambled to get the reservation reliable internet in the later part of 2019. We managed to cover most of the reservation with wi-max and wifi with a fiber back haul configuration. We are now slowly getting more stable and reliable fiber to the home(FttH) service installed to as many homes as we can, but it is slow process covering the mostly rural landscape doing all the work in house.
[…]
> We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices.
jiggawatts|1 year ago
jeroenhd|1 year ago
I suppose the multi-AZ stuff makes things more complicated, but my $5 VPS host had IPv6 like what, ten years ago?
This does have one small benefit: since none of the large cloud providers seem to do competent IPv6, you can avoid scanners, scrapers, and other log polluters on personal services by just hosting them on IPv6.
spacebanana7|1 year ago
throw0101d|1 year ago
Because they have all the IPv4 address they need and so do not see a shortage, unlike those that are not mega-corps and are struggling:
> I work for a Native American tribe in the PNW. We scrambled to get the reservation reliable internet in the later part of 2019. We managed to cover most of the reservation with wi-max and wifi with a fiber back haul configuration. We are now slowly getting more stable and reliable fiber to the home(FttH) service installed to as many homes as we can, but it is slow process covering the mostly rural landscape doing all the work in house.
[…]
> We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices.
* https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624
Anyone who (a) got in early on the IPv4 address land grab, or (b) has buckets of cash, can 'safely' ignore IPv6.