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[–] remram@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For whatever reason, to this day I get a 403 error on http://google.com/ from IPv6. https://www.google.com/ works through.

Sometimes it's not your side that is broken.

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

http://google.com/ works fine for me, tested in Firefox and with curl -6. So it could actually be your side that is broken, although it is probably your ISP's.

[–] remram@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My side works fine, Google just doesn't like the address. It's a tunnelbroker address, maybe they consider that bots... but only for some of their servers? It's weird

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh okay, IMO IPv6 tunnels are worse than just disabling it, because it's basically just a proxy with IPv6, and since there's no encryption (at this layer) both your ISP and now the tunnel could collect your data, as well as added latency.

But I guess it's okay for experimentation or if you actually require IPv6 for something.

[–] remram@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard disagree there. It is a tunnel, it is plenty fast if the intermediate node is close enough, and why would you want encryption at the IP layer.

It works great and gives me IPv6 that I otherwise wouldn't have with my ISP (Optimum), allowing me to connect to native IPv6 site and use all the IPv6 functionality I want (dedicated IPs for containers/VMs etc).

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah those are some good points, I guess I'm just spoilt with native IPv6.

[–] darkfiremp3@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

http://ipv6.google.com is a thing! If it works for you, you have working ipv6, if it doesn’t, you don’t!

[–] remram@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I have IPv6, Google just doesn't like my address.