• Album@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    It’s honestly super simple to set up. Outside of your ISP config it’s almost all autoconfig. 100% of the complication (at least for me) comes from knowing ipv4 first for 20 years and then trying to incorrectly map those concepts to V6.

    As soon as I “let go” it was fine.

    There’s not a huge net benefit you’re right. I mostly wanted to learn and I hope to be at the front edge of disabling ipv4 in the near distant future.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      An issue I had the last time I tried to set up IPv6 up was pihole didn’t work as well as I would have preferred. I assumed I just didn’t set up things correctly and it’s looking like that is the case based on the OP.

      It kept resolving ad domains with their IPv6 address.

      • Auli@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Who cares if it access them over ipv6. Their still blocked.

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          5 months ago

          If ad domains can be resolved to their IPv6 addresses, it means that they are not blocked. Your device connects to the IPv6 address and serves the ad.

          I can’t remember what the problem was but my window to rollback was closing so I reverted back to IPv4 only and pushed it to another day.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      The benefit is being able to easily access devices from the internet. The same address works on the LAN and WAN. There’s no port forwarding, so multiple devices can have the same port open. You also don’t need to mess with a VPN if your IPv4 connection uses CGNAT.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah dropping Nat is the biggest net benefit I agree but I think the avg person won’t really find that much value in it when Nat works ok

    • skittlebrau@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Thanks, I’ll give it a go!

      I suppose it’ll be easy since my whole stack uses IPv4, so I’ll be simply adding another interface on without service disruptions.