[kwlug-disc] Teksavvy service - two public ips, plus ipv6

[Doug Moen]

This is the first I heard of Teksavvy supporting publicly visible IPv6 addresses in a non-experimental way. Teksavvy wanted to support residential ipv6 years ago but upstream made this infeasible. In previous years the only public IP address you could get in the region was an IPv4 address. I guess that IPv6 is finally being deployed in southwestern Ontario for home internet.

> What is going on? Two ips per household?

There are lots of important web sites that aren't accessible using an IPv6 address, so you still need IPv4. For example, 'github.com' doesn't have an AAAA record. Try `dig -t AAAA github.com`.

Possibly what's happened is that the severe shortage of IPv4 addresses means that there are now internet services, and maybe also web sites, that aren't accessible via IPv4, so two addresses are now needed.

Doug.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024, at 4:13 PM, Mikalai Birukou wrote:
> At home I have Teksavvy cable.
>
> Last month they sent a "newer" Technicolor box with two ports on it.
>
> I finally got around to check the other port, plugging a laptop directly.
>
> - My laptop gets ipv4 address that is also a publicly visible address.
>
> - Laptop also got ipv6 address that is also publicly visible.
>
>
> What is going on? Two ips per household?
>
> I understand that ipv6 can already be publicly visible, but with ipv4 we 
> supposed to not have enough of them. Am I missing something?
>
> Have the world moved to some new place?
>
> I never checked this, cause I have usual router with nat, ports, wifi 
> and whatnot connected to provider's port. And older boxes run ipv4.
>
>
>
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