alt Hacker News> We cannot issue an IPv4 address to each machine without blowing out the cost of the subscription. We cannot use IPv6-only as that means some of the internet cannot reach the VM over the web. That means we have to share IPv4 addresses between VMs.
Give a user a option for use IPv6 only, and if the user need legacy IP add it as a additional cost and move on.
Trying to keep v4 at the same cost level as v6 is not a thing we can solve. If it was we wouldn't need v6.
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You could also provide a dual stack jump host. Then v4-only clients just set the ProxyJump option to get to all the v6-only hosts via the jump host.
They could have done that in addition (and maybe they do), but for some of their customers it then may not work, for reasons hard to understand as a customer. Especially when changing locations frequently it may sometimes work and sometimes not ... not good for keeping customers
This is the way.
Op solved a problem and your comment is "I wouldn't have solved the problem".
>legacy IP
lol
This is great if you have IPv6 support from your ISP. Not so great if you don't.
Before someone mentions tunnels: Last time I tried to set up a tunnel Happy Eyeballs didn't work for me at all; almost everything went through the tunnel anyway and I had to deal with non-residential IP space issues and way too much traffic.