I browsed around, looks like ICTA held a consultation back in "2011" about
an IPV4 to IPV6 migration. One would deduce that Mauritius Telecom doesn't
provide IPV6 addresses because their infrastructure doesn't cater for it,
and its a shame.
Curious to know which ISP's service you're using that provides IPV6.
Cheers,
CS
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 2:06 PM S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Chittesh,
> At 01:14 AM 05-07-2022, Chittesh Sham wrote:
> >I've recently tried to spin an instance from Hetzner, I was
> >surprised to see that IPV4 IP allocation isn't free anymore, you
> >have to pay 0.50- EUR/month. Then I realized that the IPV4 depletion
> >has caught up to me. So I ditched IPV4 and went with an IPV6 only
> >server. Next step was to SSH into that but I couldn't, I checked if
> >Mauritius Telecom assigned me an IPV6 address but I dont have one.
> >
> >I was wondering if that is the case around the island? Because if it
> >is then my clients trying to connect to my ipv6 website wont be able
> >to, and we are sort of stuck with using IPV6.
>
> Mauritius Telecom does not assign IPv6 addresses to the router. It
> doesn't make sense to run an IPv6-only service for users in Mauritius
> as they won't be able to access it.
>
> Here's what to expect in Mauritius:
>
> PING youtube-ui.l.google.com (2a00:1450:401a:800::200e): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 2a00:1450:401a:800::200e: icmp_seq=0 hlim=116
> time=441.574 ms
> 64 bytes from 2a00:1450:401a:800::200e: icmp_seq=1 hlim=116
> time=405.363 ms
> 64 bytes from 2a00:1450:401a:800::200e: icmp_seq=2 hlim=116
> time=424.213 ms
> 64 bytes from 2a00:1450:401a:800::200e: icmp_seq=3 hlim=116
> time=430.421 ms
> 64 bytes from 2a00:1450:401a:800::200e: icmp_seq=4 hlim=116
> time=483.162 ms
>
> --- youtube-ui.l.google.com ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 405.363/436.946/483.162/25.921 ms
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 06 2022 - 20:49:45 PST