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winstonwinstonlast Tuesday at 6:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

Do these free HE assigned IPv6 prefix(es) just remain valid indefinitely even when not actually being used/routed?


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toast0today at 7:30 PM

If you don't use it at all, they do take the prefixes away. I lost a prefix when I did a house move and a server move and took a couple years to get around to setting up the tunnel... They didn't undelegate the DNS until I poked them to either please let me have the prefix back or fix DNS.

I have native ipv6 at home and on my hosting, so that's nice. Unfortunately the he.net tunnels are used for a lot of abuse now and you treated like a bot if you use them to go to popular websites. :(

ethanhawksleyyesterday at 4:04 PM

That would be my assumption, although I wouldn't bet on it being as stable as a traditional domain registration