alt Hacker NewsPeople keep saying that IPv6 allows you to more easily host services, but you still have to support IPv4.
Try connecting to your IPv6-only service on Hotel WiFi -- you usually can't.
It's unfortunate, but IPv6 doesn't really solve any problems for a home user. And I say this as someone that has deployed IPv6 at home before.
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brandonkal • yesterday at 7:23 PM
It does make it easier. IPv6 pinholes are simpler than port forwarding. My IPv4 is not static but my IPv6 prefix is. So I don’t need dynamic DNS. I have no IPv4 port forwards, instead I run snid on a VPS to support legacy internet clients and call it a day.
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> It's unfortunate, but IPv6 doesn't really solve any problems for a home user.
CG-NAT and strict NAT in general. Newer ISPs often force users onto CG-NAT, and my consoles have had numerous issues with NAT in general over the years. ISP routers also often make fixing this an opaque or impossible problem for the user.
I don’t think IPv6 is the best thing ever, but I do think it solves the problems IPv4 did along with some annoying issues IPv4 struggled with.