Subj : New Guy.
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Oct 16 2015 12:46:41

Hello Kees,

On Friday October 16 2015 12:22, 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. :-(

 KE>  Where is your problem, you have been promoting IPv6 because of a
 KE> shortage of IPv4 addresses for a long time. Now that the moment is
 KE> there you are cross that you do not get your own IPv4 address.

"Cross" is the wrong word. And I can not deny I saw it coming. I had hoped though that existing customers could keep their IPv4 address for some time, at least till the conversion to an IPv6 internet was almost ready.

 KE>  At least you can still reach those who have not converted to IPv6.

And I can still make outgoing connections on IPv4. But it does severely restrict my Fiodonet connectivity as long as the majority of Fidonet nodes has not yet converted to IPv6.

 KE>  As for providing services on IPv4, that was never allowed in the
 KE> contract you have. For that there is a business account available,
 KE> that will probably come with a static IPv4 address for some time to
 KE> come.

Not so. When I left HccNet (dsl) in favour of Casema, I specifically asked if running servers was allowed and the answer was yes. I know that some ISPs have a ban against running servers in the contract, but that is not the case here.

I can always change providers. Xs4all hands out dual stack connections.

Cheers, Michiel

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