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rjswtoday at 8:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

I have has native IPv6 since 2010, from two different ISPs.

It is also available for one of my phone contracts but not tried enabling it yet.


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mrjay42today at 10:59 AM

Well, you're very lucky (genuinely).

In 2025, I tried to access my services using IPv6 with 4G phones and different subscriptions (different ISPs), fact is, many (most?) of them did not support IPv6 at all :(

I had to revert to IPv4. And really I have nothing against IPv6, but yeah, as a simple user, self hosting a bunch of services for friends and family: it was simply just not possible to use only IPv6 :(

(for context, the 4G providers are French, in metropolitan France)

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ralferootoday at 8:33 AM

Conversely, I had IPv6 for about 5 years from an ISP and when I switched providers, the new ISP was IPv4 only. A few years later and they now support IPv6, but my firewall setup is now IPv4 only, so I've not bothered to update it.