alt Hacker NewsIPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
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I was wondering why someone proposed IPv8
Every year I just wish someone will come up with IPv4-with-more-bytes and we can switch to it before IPv6 gets another percent usage share.
I'm surprised it's reporting is listed <5% - I thought it was pretty much ipv6 first?
And Virgin Media in the UK still doesn't support IPv6
Puma 8.0+ webserver now defaults to IPv6
And yet I still haven't ever connected to an internet provider that supports IPv6, across two countries I spend time in...
There really should have been proper government pressure and fines long ago.
Say if you have 10% of market share or x million monthly users you must support IPv6 in say 5 years. If not you are fined say 2% revenue per year until you do...
The final 10% is gonna be a doozy..
meanwhile I just disabled ipv6 on all my vm's last night due to ubuntu package servers being down and needing to get something critical out the door.
Waiting for github to support
90% spam/hack?
Nice. But note that the average is still significantly below 50%. It's also a bit concerning that the growth rate seems to be levelling off. It currently looks like a sigmoid curve with a maximum far below 100%.
Every company I have ever worked for in the US didn't use IPv6 and actually blocked it at the FW
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Great, then another 20 years and we can retire IPv4.
At home, I use an Android 16 Pixel phone, and a Chromebook, and I would suspect (but cannot prove) that 100% of my LAN outages can be blamed on the dual-stacking nature of IPv6 plus IPv4.
Chris Siebenmann has written extensively on IPv6: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/?search=ipv6
Google has some weird way of asserting connectivity, and I suspect that when connectivity on one protocol is lost, it is impossible to maintain or establish connectivity through the other one (IPv6) even if it is available upstream.
I am rather infuriated with the status quo at this point, because it is impossible to disable IPv6 on my devices and it is also impossible for my ISP to disable IPv6 on my LAN or on the CPE router which they own and control.
Due to chronic WiFi issues I was eventually forced to place my ISP router into Bridge mode permanently, and I use a 3rd party Netgear which I own, and does not have the same WiFi issues, and where IPv6 is optional (and often fails, because its implementation is buggy and glitchy for no reason.)
But I still have to pay Hetzner separately to rent out an IPv4.
Sounds like it's time to abandon it for something new and more stupid
I am waiting for the flood of evangelist to explain:
- IPv6 proponents are the only ones who know that NAT is not a firewall, and
- Everyone in the world would love IPv6 if they just didn't hate learning new things
IPv6 will never make it. Maybe IPv8 [0], which IPv6 should have actually looked like:
> 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
I still do not support IPv6 on my servers and I think I will skip it and wait for IPv8:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
Avoiding a dual-stack and making IPv4 a part of whatever superseeds it seems like the right choice to me.
IPv6 always seemed to me like throwing away all existing telephone numbers, just to support longer numbers.
crossed 50% on Mar 28, 2026, 3 weekends back.
google published the latest data only yesterday, hence the delay.