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Hello Michiel!

Sunday September 12 2021 10:17, you wrote to me:

 MV>  * Forwarded from area 'IPV6'
 MV> Hello Rick,

 MV> On Saturday September 11 2021 18:56, you wrote to All:

 MV> Good to see you linked up here.

 RS>> It has been suggested that I use ipv6, in a nutshell are there
 RS>> advantages of using, disadvantages to not using? Or is it just
 RS>> fun and nerdy to do so?

 MV> Warning: I am an IPv6 evangelist. I have been promoting the use of
 MV> IPv6 in Fidonet for over a decade, so I may be a bit biased. ;-)

Noted...

 MV> When your ISP already provides you with IPv6, making your Fidonet
 MV> nodes IPv6 capable is very easy. I see that you run Binkd Linux. Linux
 MV> has been supporting IPv6 for "ages" and binkd supports IPv6 from
 MV> version 1.00. All you have to do is open port 24554, or 24556 in your
 MV> case, in your firewall(s) and add an AAAA record to awesome.abon.us.

 MV> So how about it?

I will contact my isp and activate my ipv6 tomorrow and start reading on how
to implement in my network.. I have unifi at home here...

Rick

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