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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

Like 15 October at 7:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social

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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