Today: Starting with IPv6-only

Let's start with IPv6-only

When you start with IPv6, a good thing you can do, is to extend your private network with IPv6. 

In Germany most private internet accesses are dualstacked or DS-lite, so IPv6 is available out of the box.

Because we are going to IPv6-only at the end of the jouney, it might be a great idea to test IPv6-only today?!

foto credit Clemens van Lay

 Oh, that is quite easy, just disable IPv4 on your device and you are finished!

If you have done that step, you will have a limited internet experience. Today - June 2022 - a lot of the internet content is IPv4-only so can't consume it 😞.

Because some major sites (e.g. github or twitter) are among the unreachble IPv4-only internet you will not stay with raw IPv6-only as a normal user. There may be some special cases where you can use raw IPv6-only internet. That is the case if you have a very limited number of communication partners, e.g. for a site-to-site-VPN.

Okay let's summarize: Too much websites are v4-only and that is not fun, if you are trying out IPv6-only.

You can rollback and stay with dualstack for the rest of this decade ... or you look for a solution.

One of my nexts posts will cover NAT64, which is one possible solution.

Location: Düsseldorf, Deutschland

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