Is anybody using only IPv6 in their home lab? I keep running into weird problems where some services use only IPv6 and are “invisible” to everyone (I’m looking at you, Java!) I end up disabling IPv6 to force everything to the same protocol, but I started wondering, “why not disable IPv4 instead?” I’d have half as many firewall rules, routes and configurations. What are the risks?

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And that is the biggest problem it is different then ipv4 and you have to learn new stuff. My worst was up keeps changing the prefix so I had to find out how to write an allow rule that ignored the prefix and only allowed the end but since they always stayed the same.

    • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If DNS wouldn’t constantly break I’d be more open to learning. Right now what’s the point?

    • lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lets say you have a bunch of self hosted servers. How are you tracking their ips on ipv6? Are you able to type the ip off the top of your head? I feel like its very simple with ipv4.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Use the names. I connect to my self hosted services all the time over ipv6 using DNS. Still use ipv4 to ssh though as my prefix changes alot,sometimes multiple times a day.