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tildearrow and IPv6 - a short story!

2020/04/21 8:05 PM (UTC -5) | tildearrow

summary: tildearrow may be going IPv6-ready soon. this is only the beginning.

in the past, I did not consider IPv6 important for tildearrow to exist.
it was thought that IPv4 would be sufficient for the website's needs.

over the years, tildearrow has been mostly an IPv4-only service. there were three reasons for this:

technically I did use IPv6 before, prior to opening my private network (which was IPv4-only).

however, after observing a constantly rising usage of IPv6, I am in the process of adopting IPv6 as well.

after some trials with a cellular network, I have observed reduced latency and increased speeds out of a result of a better network.

in December 16, 2019, tildearrow adopted IPv6 for its private network.
it was a success, and local transfers have been sped up, especially in the wireless side.

I was aiming for a full IPv6 transition by January 1 of this year, but the deadline wasn't met because I still was fighting to re-open this website and services (they were closed in November 11 due to a ISP-side transition to carrier-grade NAT).

as of now I am glad to announce that the first step towards IPv6 adoption has been taken. host tildearrow.zapto.org now resolves to a preliminary Teredo address:

tildearrow.zapto.org has address 190.43.102.190
tildearrow.zapto.org has IPv6 address 2001:0:53aa:64c:38c5:7427:41d4:9941

due to the nature of it being a Teredo address (sorry, my ISP hasn't granted me an IPv6 address yet), it is preliminary, temporary, and slow as heck.
hence IPv6 is not the default for this site yet, and is only a last resort solution.

you are welcome to test it, but please note that the website will take ages to load.

I am in talks with my ISP to provide an IPv6 address pool so I can truly enable IPv6 for this site.
however, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the entire country is under quarantine, and therefore the support staff has been nerfed, temporarily hindering the possibility of requesting an IPv6 block.
as soon as this is over, I will resume the process.

this ends the announcement.