Subj : New Guy.
To   : Markus Reschke
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Oct 16 2015 11:57:26

Hello Markus,

On Friday October 16 2015 11:32, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> Today I got some bad news. My ISP (Ziggo) is going the DFS-lite
 MvdV>> route when rolling out IPv6. :-(

 MR> That's a pity!

Well, I saw it coming. I already mentioned this as a realistic scenario a couple of years ago in a Fidonews article. We have apparently reached the point that not everyone can have a public IPv4 address.

 MR>  You could rent some inexpensive virtual server with an
 MR> IPv4 and IPv6 address and use socat or ssh to to forward binkp from
 MR> the server's IPv4 address to your IPv6 address at home.

I do not know how to deal with it yet. I have some time. They have started with new customers. New customers get IPv6 via DS-lite. Existing customers will be converted "later". They are a bit vague on it. They also said that they would look for a solution for the estimated 1% of customers that need a public IPv4 address.

We may see the reverse of what he.net and SixXs are offering now: Providers offering a public IPv4 address via a 4in6 tunnel. I do not expect such a service to be free...


Cheers, Michiel

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