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Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity

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296 points jmillikin | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.01s | source
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throw0101c ◴[29 Jun 25 11:56 UTC] No.44412375[source]▶
If anyone wants to try / use IPv6, but their ISP does not provide it, Hurricane Electric (HE) has offered a tunnel service for many years now:

* https://tunnelbroker.net

* https://ipv6.he.net

There are scrips available to bring up a tun device on your system (or router) and route traffic over it:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IPv6_tunnel_via_Hurricane_Ele...

* https://brandonrozek.com/blog/obtaining-ipv6-address-hurrica...

* https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6_setup_Hurricane_...

* https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/auto-update-script-for-hurrican...

* https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/network/hurricane_electri...

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1. jeroenhd ◴[29 Jun 25 12:45 UTC] No.44412674[source]▶
One annoying caveat with these is that for streaming services, you will need to figure out how to disable those tunnels, because they're blocked as if they're VPNs for getting around region restricted content blocks.

Still works great, though. Thanks to the power of RAs, you can get all of your devices hooked up with an IPv6 address even if your router doesn't support HE tunnels, just have any device in your network advertise a /64 and it'll become an IPv6 router (assuming your router doesn't filter out RAs for security reasons).

Very useful for hosting stuff from within your home network without actually needing to mess with port forwarding rules.