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by WarOnPrivacy 850 days ago
> The money would be much better spent helping them catch up to other countries with IPv6 deployment.

I don't understand why so many Fiber providers are IPv6 reluctant. Our last fiber provider (Frontier) abandoned it before it started. I'm on a fiber provider now w/ a choice of 8+ ISPs. Zero of them offer IPv6. I'm reading up on getting my own IPv6 AS.
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snowpid 850 days ago
" so many Fiber providers are IPv6 reluctant." This depends on the country. Usually "late internet countries" have more open to turn into IPv6. One German university has more IPv4 addresses than whole China.

Which country are you from?

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WarOnPrivacy 849 days ago
USA.

The fiber provider I was assigned to by default put me behind CGNAT. To me, this hints to me that they don't have as many IPv4 as they need. I politely requested that they unNAT me and they eventually did.

notable: Their default DNS server can't resolve over half the common domains I tried, inc the one for their their own site. It returns an empty response.

Otherwise their service seems okay. I'm still switching to another provider - one that seems more grown up and sells 2.5Gb for $80/mo.

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