[scintill76]

> scanners often cannot connect because of misconfiguration/incompatibility or lack of a routable IPv6 host address

Isn't this likely to keep you out of your own system too, at some point (accessing from unusual location without IPv6)?

[revasm]

Yeah. It could be problematic. Then again, 6to4/6in4 tunneling is fairly straightforward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnelbrokers. Binding to a backup IPv4 port is another option.