alt Hacker NewsI've been thinking about starting. My current ISP (Comcast) has native IPv6 but you can't get a static prefix (maybe if you are a business class customer, IDK). It would be nice to have a prefix which is statically assigned to me for stuff that I host at home, so I've looked at doing an HE tunnel instead. The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.
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You don’t need your ISP to assign a static prefix just to have static addresses on your home network. Instead choose your own prefix inside the fd00::/8 block. There is a procedure using hashing that you can follow to help guarantee that your prefix is unlikely to be shared with anyone else, but you don’t actually need to use it. Configure your router to advertise that prefix in addition to any prefix assigned by your ISP and all of your computers will give themselves an address in both prefixes. If you set your servers to base their address on their mac address, then every one of your servers will have a single unique address. Your client machines can keep their privacy–aware addresses that change frequently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
For my network I wanted something I had some chance of remembering so I consulted a dictionary and ended up with fdbe:aded:cafe:babe::/64.
> The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them
cogent gonna cogent. i think you're still probably good for the most part.
> The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.
A bigger drawback is that you end up in a bad neighborhood. 20 years ago, most traffic from tunnelbroker users were people excited about ipv6 with isps that didn't care about it. In 2026, nobody is excited about ipv6 anymore and tunnelbroker traffic is mostly abuse or trying to circumvent georestrictions... Expect to fill out so many captchas if you set it up.