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On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 22:25:39 +0200
"Michiel van der Vlist" (2:280/5555)
 wrote:

> *** Answering a msg posted in area FN_SYSOP (International Fido
> Sysops).
> 
> Hello Paul,
> 
> On Saturday June 24 2023 12:26, you wrote to me:
> 
>  PH> On 23 Jun 2023 at 10:30a, Michiel van der Vlist pondered and
>  PH> said...  
> 
>  Mv>> Indeed no IPv6 for now.  
> 
>  PH> Yep  
> 
> No change, so I will flag you as "6DWN" in the list for now.
> 
>  Mv>> I see you were running a he.net tunnel. Does it mean you will
>  Mv>> have native IPv6? Or is there a problem getting the tunnel back
>  Mv>> up?  
> 
>  PH> I may end up with a mix of both, I think I may get some native
>  PH> allocation with my new ISP in the coming weeks. Not sure... but
>  PH> also looking to have a tunnel running again as I'd like to make
>  PH> use of that too. My hope is it will be possible to do both
>  PH> without too much issue.  
> 
> Interesting. With a he.net tunnel you have a fixed IPv6 prefix and
> that has its advantages. With native IPv6 you may have a (semi)
> dynamic prefix. Your milage may vary. Other than that I find native
> IPv6 much preferable ove a tunnel. He,net offers a fantastic service
> for a very attractive price, but a tunnel just can not match native
> IPv6. At least that is my experience.
> 
> Please keep us posted.

As a side note, Google search over ipv6 is broken. They're basically
rejecting requests. While I configured my PCs to prefer ipv4 over ipv6
anyway (a tunnel is always going to be slower than native ipv4), I
couldn't find a way to do so with the Android phones. I ended up
turning my home ipv6 tunnel off until its fixed.
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