It would be a good start if AWS supported IPv6 on all their services in the first place. Everything enters through CloudFront so I don’t need any IPv4. But AWS’s own services don’t have IPv6 in every region, so I still have to provision NAT gateways.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 months ago
All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two… but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn’t push such a policy.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 months ago
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Yikes. I get free IPv6 for my servers through Hurricane Electric since my ISP doesn’t provide it yet, I wonder if their service also works on AWS? I mean come on, if someone like Comcast can figure it out, why is it so hard for a major player like Amazon?
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 months ago
Lots of legacy networking I would assume.
Most services especially compute can get IPv6 so if all you have is EC2 instances you’re good. S3 is usually fine, but I think when you get into Lambdas and especially the more niche services, those are IPv4 only, so you need some IPv4 addressing.
Ironically I’ve really been enjoying the massive IPv6 address space, makes numbering dozens of VPCs and subnets a whole lot easier. I don’t get why it’s not in huge demand especially larger customers.
thejml@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It is actually in demand by one big customer, the DoD. Amazon is pushing hard to get all its services IPv6 by EOY as of this year’s re:Invent. Something like 98% need to be in place for DoD contracts.
And they’re trying to force people over to IPv6 by charging them per public IPv4 address, so, hopefully that spurs the migration. Larger address counts/space is super useful.
pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
A massive swathe of current gen devices don’t even support it.
It won’t be a month.
Microsoft announce changes much smaller than that 4 years out and still have to give extensions.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That’s just embarrassing.
Archer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Android doesn’t support DHCPv6 lol
hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Why not? Isn’t there a dhcpd6 in Linux?
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Ugh… still? I knew the mail app had shitty support for it and had to create an IPv4-only dns entry for my mail server, I didn’t realize the whole system was broken. Ah well, despite being an android user myself I would still place it in the bucket of “not modern” because there’s really no excuse for something like this.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Getting plenty of local link and global ipv6 adresses on my pixel 7…
mlg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Like what though?
The last thing I have that doesn’t support ipv4 from the hardware level is my Nintendo DS.
Everything else has the hardware capability, it’s just never used or enabled in the software by default.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 months ago
…and most people who own those devices have never heard of IPv6 and don’t know how to enable it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
this shouldnt be a.burden for users.
you can simply update a device to support it by default.
AA5B@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My smart TV from two years ago does not support ipv6, and it was fairly high end.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What manufacturer/operating system?
Mnemnosyne@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Wasn’t 64 but adoption largely driven by Microsoft deciding they weren’t making a 32 but version of their next Windows at one point? It seems it might take something similar.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Microsoft supports 32 bit processors still with windows 10. They died out because it was becoming clear that 4GB of memory wasn’t going to be enough for applications, and the low margins on budget chips didn’t warrant maintaining 32 bit designs when the 64 bit versions would do and could still run the 32 bit software.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
No, 64 bit was widely adopted long before windows cut support. Keep in mind a 32 bit OS can only use ~4GB of ram, and most systems have been shipping with more than that for many years now.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
thats why dual stack exists. so older devices can still be used on an ipv6 network.
just give us a functioning ipv6 infrastructure, whats the damn holdup at this point??
my 3rd world country has it but big us players like amazon seemingly cant do it.