[roody15]

One problem is not acknowledging just how bad ipv6 is being rolled out in the US.

Once promoted as a way to give every internet device you would like a reachable external IP … has instead been a new protocol locked behind giant corporations and telecoms. Now mobile providers and some ISP play gatekeeper … don’t allow you to keep any IPv6 devices (rotate assignments) so we end up with little benefit to the end consumer.

The idea that a home user ca setup a desktop and share anything I want via IPV6 another person without the need for a middle man “cloud” provider just didn’t happen. In fact requesting blocks of IPv6 is not easy … and at the end of the day for the average user who cares.

Great so Verizon can now assign my phone and IPv6 address… that I can literally do nothing with.

Corporate greed / government control have severely limited any usefulness of IPv6 at least here in the US

[samcat116]

> Now mobile providers and some ISP play gatekeeper … don’t allow you to keep any IPv6 devices (rotate assignments) so we end up with little benefit to the end consumer.

I see this as a feature not a bug. Use dynamic DNS if you need a stable endpoint here.

> The idea that a home user ca setup a desktop and share anything I want via IPV6 another person without the need for a middle man “cloud” provider just didn’t happen.

You can, you likely just need to change the default firewall settings on a typical ISP provided router.

> Corporate greed / government control have severely limited any usefulness of IPv6 at least here in the US

I don't see how either of those have to do with this.

[roody15]

Dynamic DNS for example through cloudflare … is a middleman. Great effort has been taken to make obtaining a small block of IPv6 addresses difficult for the end user.

It’s true a few isps will provide you a static up but most will not.

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/

In most implementations the end user sees no benefit from IPv6 or simply an isp using carrier grade NAT. When IPv6 first rolled out it was promoted as a way for everyone to easily obtain addresses .. reality is not so much. End user functionality crippled Or gatekeeped

Hypothetically should be to host a simple file share of let’s say photos on a desktop and share using SMB or another protocol via IPv6. No need for cloud provider / iCloud Photos, Google or whatever. Just a direct connection with a desktop that stays on 24/7. This is not the case and effort has been made to make IPv6 really more of a useful protocol to mobile isps managing large numbers of new devices.

IMO #lame

[FireBeyond]

> Use dynamic DNS if you need a stable endpoint here.

How do you tell an embedded device to push a DDNS update?