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Deals & Offers by marcus_qc 21 replies 2.2K views
marcus_qc

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#11

haroldgsm said:
€3.50
Over budget. Wife has spreadsheets.
tomchan said:
KnownHost still does, $2.50/month
This is more like it. Their $2.50 plan — is that the one with 10GB disk? Enough for a static site and a wireguard endpoint. Anyone actually using them for v6-only right now or is it legacy stock they forgot to kill?

42U and still growing
tomchan

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8 #12

marcus_qc said:
Is it legacy stock they forgot to kill
I asked sales last week. They said "still supported, no plans to discontinue." Make of that what you will. I don't trust hosting sales further than I can throw them, but the box I have in Amsterdam has been up 180 days. Only rebooted because I did it.

works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GeorgeNmp

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AS64512

#13

tomchan said:
No RPKI ROA yet, which is concerning
I emailed them about this. No response yet. Their BGP communities are documented but the IRR situation is a mess. For a personal project it's fine. For anything serious, prefix hijacking on v6 is not theoretical. I have seen it in my day job.

iBGP, eBGP, don't care, just peer
nangwill

Member

#14

What is CLAT? I tried DNS64 with TREX and GitHub works but my game server does not. The game server has IPv4 only. I am very new. Sorry if stupid question.

GeorgeNmp

Member

AS64512

9 #15

nangwill said:
What is CLAT
Not stupid. CLAT is the customer-side part of 464XLAT. It translates IPv4 packets to IPv6 on your machine, then PLAT at the provider edge translates back. Without CLAT, applications that open raw IPv4 sockets just fail. DNS64 only helps when the app does a DNS lookup first. Hardcoded IPv4 literals? Dead. Most games are exactly this problem.

iBGP, eBGP, don't care, just peer
mariannoodle

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Debian Stable

#16

nangwill said:
My game server does not
What game? If it's self-hosted, just tunnel it. WireGuard over v6 to a dual-stack box somewhere. I do this for my brother's Minecraft server. His ISP is CGNAT hell, my v6-only Debian box in Portland terminates the tunnel, I forward the v4 port from a $5 Vultr instance I already had. Overcomplicated? Yes. Works? Also yes.

declarative, reproducible, indescribably good
marcus_qc

Member OP

#17

mariannoodle said:
Just tunnel it
Defeats the purpose though. I want OFF the v4 treadmill entirely. No tunnel, no translation, no 464XLAT spaghetti. Clean v6 end to end. My side project is a blog and a git repo. If GitHub needs NAT64, fine. If the provider offers it, even better. But I don't want to maintain v4 infrastructure at all.

42U and still growing
dudegoat

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Reseller

2 #18

marcus_qc said:
I want OFF the v4 treadmill
I respect the purity but my clients pay for reachable. 0.4% of my traffic is v6-only eyeballs. I checked last month. That 0.4% is not worth the support tickets from the other 99.6% asking why their cousin in rural Spain can't load the site. Premium v6-only is a bet on the future. Budget v6-only is a hobby. Different things.

sarahjey

Member

#19

dudegoat said:
0.4% of my traffic is v6-only eyeballs
Where are you getting this number? My university's network is dual-stack but v6-preferred and I know Ottawa government stuff is moving v6-first. The percentage is higher than people think in certain demographics. Not everyone is measuring correctly.

learning on $5 VPS and prayers
dudegoat

Member

Reseller

#20

sarahjey said:
Not everyone is measuring correctly
Google Analytics, default setup, last 30 days. I am not a researcher. I am a person who buys cheap and sells less cheap. If you want to sell v6-only hosting to my WordPress clients, be my guest. I will watch.

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