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   Hello Rick,   
      
   On Saturday September 11 2021 18:56, you wrote to All:   
      
   Good to see you linked up here.   
      
    RS> It has been suggested that I use ipv6, in a nutshell are there   
    RS> advantages of using, disadvantages to not using? Or is it just fun and   
    RS> nerdy to do so?   
      
   Warning: I am an IPv6 evangelist. I have been promoting the use of IPv6 in   
   Fidonet for over a decade, so I may be a bit biased. ;-)   
      
   Well, it is fun and nerdy and if there is any of that Pioneer Spirit left you   
   would jump in right away. ;-)   
      
   But IPv6 isn't just nerdy and fun, it is the future. The Internet has run out   
   of IPv4 addresses many years ago. Not in the sense that thet are burned, all   
   the about 4000 millions of addesses that fit in a 32 bit number are still   
   there, but there are no new ones. There are not enough IPv4 adresses to let   
   everyone have one. And so providers revert to tricks like CGNAT (CArrier Grade   
   Nat) to "solve" those problems. But the real solution is IPv6. IPv6 uses 128   
   bit adresses, so there is no longer a shortage of addresses. In fact with IPv6   
   you do not just get one address per household, you get a VERY LARGE block of   
   addresses. Enough to let every appliance in your local network have its own   
   globally routable unique IP address. No more need for non standard ports when   
   running more than one server.   
      
   As you can see in the list that I publish weekly in Fidonews, there presently   
   are 107 nodes in Fidonet that support IPv6. The counter goes to 108, but one   
   in the list is flagged as down. I will post the list in the next message.   
   There are four nodes flagged as INO4. That means they no longer have a public   
   IPv4 address for accepting incoming calls. To connect with these nodes you   
   need IPv6. I had expected this number to be larger by now, but we sure can   
   expect this number to grow when ISP's stop issuing public IPv4 addresses to   
   customers.   
      
   When your ISP already provides you with IPv6, making your Fidonet nodes IPv6   
   capable is very easy. I see that you run Binkd Linux. Linux has been   
   supporting IPv6 for "ages" and binkd supports IPv6 from version 1.00. All you   
   have to do is open port 24554, or 24556 in your case, in your firewall(s) and   
   add an AAAA record to awesome.abon.us.   
      
   So how about it?   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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