It's bizarre to me that there is still so much effort spent on resisting IPv6 implementations, we were converting some industrial control networks to it almost 10 years ago and those organizations are basically defined by ancient equipment. Rather than byzantine v4 NAT coordination we mapped entire plants and substations to V6 addresses and put in 6to4 for the PLCs that were old enough to vote, so that multiple sites that all used the same 10.x.y.z blocks because of course they did could be routed together. Had V6 available from my house to pretty much anywhere I cared about in 2017.
As a business, especially a small business, there is no financial reason to do so in the United States for the vast majority of businesses. This gets talked about on NANOG all the time.
It doubles the workload and knowledge required, doubles the security attack surface, and because of the 2nd part, doubles the security risk.
Right or wrong that's the calculation for most spots.
It's the same bullshit everywhere it seems. There goes the CGNAT with their router where the "advanced" options are basically defining DHCP settings - through a shitty phone app. There is also the stupid TV that no one asked for but it's part of the package.
And when they do give you v6 its a /64.
I wish there might be a category of prosumer friendly ISP of sorts. Those exist but they are hard to find.
reincarnate0x14|1 month ago
esseph|1 month ago
It doubles the workload and knowledge required, doubles the security attack surface, and because of the 2nd part, doubles the security risk.
Right or wrong that's the calculation for most spots.
irusensei|1 month ago
And when they do give you v6 its a /64.
I wish there might be a category of prosumer friendly ISP of sorts. Those exist but they are hard to find.