alt Hacker NewsLast time I looked at Digital Ocean they had completely missed the purpose of IPv6 and would only assign a droplet a /124 and even then only as a fixed address like they were worried we are going to run out of addresses.
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"Simple" VPS providers like DigitalOcean, etc. really need to get the hell onboard with network virtualization. It's 2026, I don't want to be dealing with individual hosts just being allocated a damned /64 either. Give me a /48, attach it to a virtual network, let me split it into /64's and attach VM's to it - if I want something other than SLACC addresses (or multiple per VM) then I can deal with manually assigning them.
To be fair, the "big" cloud providers can't seem to figure this shit out, either. It's mind boggling, I'm not saying I've gone through the headache of banging out all the configuration to get FRRouting and my RouterOS gear happily doing the EVPN-VXLAN dance; but I'm also not Amazon, Google, or Microsoft...
But really what's the point of giving half an internet worth of addresses to every machine? I never understood that part of IPv6.
I think it would have been better having shorter addresses and not waste so many on every endpoint.