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Subject: FidoNews 40:01 [02/0 Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 08:33 am
From: Alan Ianson To: Michiel van der Vlist

> I actually have a second system running running on the same hardware as my
> main system that I use for testing. It is not in the nodelist, but it has an
> IPv6 address of its own and it is on-line and reachable. f5556.vlist.eu.

>> That doesn't happen with IPv4. I don't have IPv6 either.

> Then you can not connect to my test system, it does not have a public IPv4
> address. I could set it up to respond at a diffeent port on IPv4 but I choose
> not to.

Yes, it's unfortunate but this does happen, and it is going to happen more and
more.

> Actually we should have finished the transition ten years ago. Now we have to
> make the best of what we have got.

I agree, I don't understand why ISPs here in the west are not ahead of this.

Money could be a part of it. I think there are large numbers of routers in the
wild that don't support IPv6 so they will need to be changed. There will be a
cost for that.

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