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   Message 2,870 of 4,612   
   Michiel van der Vlist to Jeff Smith   
   IPv6's   
   08 May 19 10:35:21   
   
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   REPLY: 1:282/1031.0 4e0c6e1b   
   Hello Jeff,   
      
   On Tuesday May 07 2019 12:25, you wrote to All:   
      
    JS> First, let me say that I am far from overly knowledgeable regarding   
    JS> IPv6 operation and functionality.   
      
    JS> But after talking, being on hold to several levels of my ISP's support   
    JS> staff over the last two hours. I feel pretty dang smart. :-)   
      
   -)   
      
   Unfortunately it stopped working again:   
      
   + 10:14 [2640] call to 1:282/1031@fidonet   
     10:14 [2640] trying f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net [2602:41:670c:a600   
   d1d2:c23d:4b1c:940c]...   
   ? 10:15 [2640] connection to 1:282/1031@fidonet failed: {W32   
                  API error 10065} A socket operation was attempted to an   
   unreachable host   
     10:15 [2640] trying f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net [65.103.12.161]:24554...   
   + 10:15 [2640] bind -- getaddrinfo: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt.  (11001)   
     10:15 [2640] connected   
   + 10:15 [2640] outgoing session with f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net:24554   
   [65.103.12.161]   
      
    JS> I had to explain my IP situation several different ways before I could   
    JS> get them to comprehend what I actually needed. My situation is really   
    JS> quite simple to me. I have a block of static v4 IP's I am told by my   
    JS> ISP that each static v4 IP has a derived v6 IP assigned to it.   
      
   Hmmm...   
      
   There is a way to associate an IPv6 address with an IPv4 address, there is   
   even a notation for it:   
      
   2001:1c02:1100:d200::192.168.178.11   
      
   But I have never seen this actually used by an ISP to issue IPv6.   
      
    JS> I asked them what the v6 Prefix and the v6 Gateway address(s) were.   
    JS> They had little if any knowledge what my v6 IP's were let alone what   
    JS> the prefix or gateway would be.   
      
   Odd. An ISP should know what address (blocks) they issue...   
      
    JS> Linux needs to know those settings before one can save the network   
    JS> settings for that that Linux PC.   
      
   I am not familiair with Linux, but I would be surprised if it differs, in that   
   contrary to Windows, it requires user intervention to ceate a working IPv6   
   setup.   
      
   Here I do not have to do anything to assign IPv6 addresses to my PC's. The   
   router is assigned a /56 from the ISP. The router assigns a /64 to the local   
   LAN en from that /64 IPv6 addresses are assigned to devices on the LAN. Either   
   bij SLAAC or DHCP6.   
      
   It is only when running servers that I have to intervene. I have to punch a   
   hole in the firewall for the ports concerned and I have to update the DNS..   
      
    JS> I have written a bash script that goes out and gets my v6 IP and IF it   
    JS> has changed it then updates the settings at my DNS provider for that   
    JS> domain. Which shouldn't be needed IF the v6 IP was actually static   
    JS> like they say that it is.   
      
   So obviously you do not have static IPv6 addresses. :(   
      
   Can you change ISPs in you area?   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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