[hisyn]

This -- this has me a bit frustrated and I'll eventually email them about it.

I haven't contacted them about it but that makes sense sadly. So they're getting a /64 from their upstream and just sharing that out to everyone. This isn't IPv4, they need to make this right.

Vultr, OTOH, gives each HOST a /64. I've been doing most of my work on Vultr right now so I can use more than 16 IPs on a single host. I was/am hoping that providers would standardize somewhere in the middle: Every customer account in each datacenter gets a /64. I wouldn't mind all of my hosts having their own /64 to subdivide.

[jandrese]

The smallest allocation a customer should ever get with IPv6 is a /64. You break a lot of stuff when you go smaller. DigitalOcean's approach is kind of like sticking an entire datacenter behind a single IPv4 address.

It's not like it is hard to get IPv6 address space either. All they have to do is ask. A VPS provider like DO can get a /32 easy peasy.

[mnordhoff]

DigitalOcean has /32s from ARIN and RIPE.

(And a /48 from APNIC???)

(Edit: And a /36, /40 and /48 from APNIC?)