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nota 🦈✨

@io @vidister oh yeah, people are always surprised by the high v6 traffic numbers, but it's actually pretty normal!

It's that probability paradox thing where adoption among subscribers is poor and servers are even worse, so the global averages are terrible. But because the highest bandwidth services, the big tech company CDNs, all support v6, if you *do* enable it the far majority of residential traffic will generally be v6 without much work.

15 October at 0:41 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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fiona float 🐈

@nota @io this creates the weird phenomenon where at night and on weekends/holidays there is a way better IPv6 adoption than during a workday.

15 October at 0:56 | Open on chaos.social
9er

@vidister @nota @io we have a dashboard that guesses if we currently have school holidays, based on the fraction of IPv6 traffic on our webservers over the last few days

15 October at 7:10 | Open on chaos.social
Wilbur

@9er sounds like that could actually work, my school switched ISPs and havent even enabled IPv6 yet so I wouldn't be surprised if most schools only really use v4

15 October at 12:54 | Open on wetdry.world
9er

@wilbur We have been ISP for ~3500 schools until a few months ago and yes, that's the sad reality.

15 October at 13:22 | Open on chaos.social
adorfer

@9er @wilbur sounds like "IPv4 based website blocking".

15 October at 15:12 | Open on chaos.social
Wilbur

@adorfer @9er it’s not though, all of our schools website blocking is done through DNS (and yes I've tested), the network blocks all port 53 traffic unless it's to a school DNS server (and they break all the time I hate it so much)

15 October at 15:16 | Open on wetdry.world
9er

@wilbur @adorfer I've made my piece with DNS blocking for schools. Teachers/officials want a way to be legally safe and more important: safe from angry parents. Our service had pretty much 100% uptime over the last few years. We had very very few cases of overblocking. The lists come from a commercial service, so it didn't need any work once it was deployed. Sure, there's usually a way to bypass it, but if someone is smart enough to do that, they could also find other ways to watch porn...

15 October at 21:29 | Open on chaos.social
sabik

@vidister @nota @io @daisy
also, covid improved IPv6 adoption

16 October at 2:08 | Open on rants.au
Chris Ford

@nota @io @vidister high penetration in mobile networks too (posting from my phone that only has a v6 address, because the network is single stack v6 on the RAN side)

16 October at 11:40 | Open on aus.social
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