Internet provider rant
Sometimes I just get tired. I thought getting a public #IPv4 address was as simple as contacting my ISP and paying them some more money per month (for a service I've had for free up until now, of course).
Apparently they have to switch me over to a different comms operator to be able to provide me with a public address, though. And _that_ provider apparently can't provide #IPv6 addresses in my area.
Have only heard one side of the story still, but this means I have to call around to my local communications operator and to various ISPs to try to see on what level the problem actually lurks. So far I've spent several hours trying to restore something that has been working perfectly for years - on top of getting a higher monthly bill for a worse selection of ISPs and service. Yay for monopolies... #selfhosting #homelab
Internet provider rant
@paco @mikael If you really care about #IPv6 and can't get both at the same time from your ISP, then you should take IPv6 native and do IPv4 trough a tunnel. This way you incentivize the rollout of IPv6 by making the alternative slower.
(And ideally you show all v4 connecting users a banner telling them their ISP sucks. 
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@namedbird it’s a cute idea, but I don’t know how to do that. It’s not really an option? I don’t have any ipv6 business ISPs?
@mikael
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Depends on the needs… the cheapest VPS with v4 could already do it. WireGuard tunnel and you’re ready to go…
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@gyptazy in my case, I’m paying for the static IPs and business grade service. I would resent having to also pay for a VPS to make it work. And if you have a 500Mbit or gigabit service to your house, how much of that will you get if you route all your traffic through an inexpensive VPS? It seems like paying more and getting less.
@namedbird @mikael
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https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/
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@paco @gyptazy @namedbird In my case it actually looks pretty attractive. A small OVH VPS with 500Mbps/unlimited bandwidth, costs about the same as I would pay for a single IPv4 address.
An #HAProxy instance plus probably but not necessarily a VPN - everything would use TLS anyway and only hit publicly available endpoints - could deal with my needs easily.
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@mikael I’d be interested to know if the small CPUs, encrypting/decrypting all that data, could do so fast enough to fill 500Mbit. Likewise the extra latency by adding the round trip from your house to OVH. It would surely impact anything latency-sensitive like gaming. It technically works, but I think it will not be seamless.
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@paco @gyptazy @namedbird This would only be an ingress for the services I run at home: My personal mail, a code forge and a blog that is rarely updated and gets read mainly by crawlers and bots.
For that purpose an added latency of ~40ms rtt is acceptable, I’d say. The rest of what the network is used for is served well by IPv6 and decently by the IPv4 address I have behind CG-NAT, whatever religious opinions I personally have about the technology and its ever-increasing use.