Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

[Daniel Frey]

On 2019-11-26 15:41, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Daniel Frey:
>
>> Can't do anything, ipv6 is completely disabled (removed from kernel
>> config.)
>
> A search for "linux kernel enable ipv6" just returned more than 1.7
> million results.

Even if I recompile my custom kernels it won't work.

>
>> Current ISP will not issue any ipv6 if an ipv4 static is required.
>
> My current ISP offers native IPv6 and has been doing so for years.
> While choice varies across different countries, IPv6 availability has
> increased considerably over the last 10 years, which is why SiXXs.net
> has discontinued services[1] mid 2017. Even a small amount of searching
> should turn up a decent ISP in most industrialized countries.

That's great! Except I'm obviously not living where you are. I have 
exactly one choice for an ISP and I need a static IP. The ISP disables 
ipv6 for some reason when you have a static IP.

Housing is terribly expensive here and I'm not moving to get ipv6, 
that's just stupid.

> Seriously, IPv4 may appear to work "just fine" for you, but there is a
> lot of nasty stuff like NAT going on under the hood. IPv6 means a lot
> less hassle if you have a decent ISP and a halfway modern router.

They do have ipv6 on residential accounts and their implementation has 
caused many problems with devices. This was years ago. I would hope 
they've fixed all the network delays that were present with a dual-stack 
configuration - one of the major issues is that a single DNS lookup 
would take 90 seconds to return a result. Only way to fix it was to 
disable ipv6 in their router.

When you phoned in to report a problem, they'd say "looks good on our 
end" and close the ticket. I disabled ipv6 that day, but when I got a 
static IP I found out I couldn't get ipv6 anyway.

Dan