Hi Ish,
Hmm 🤔 so the government's way of countering ipv4 depletion is to get their
website an IPV6 address and do nothing about the networking infrastructure.
How many Mauritians can access their government website over an IPV6
connection? LOL
Cs
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 9:33 PM Ish Sookun <ish_at_sysadmin-journal.com> wrote:
> Hi Chittesh,
>
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5318
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.govmu.org. IN AAAA
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.govmu.org. 3600 IN AAAA 2001:43f8:cc0:e300:b::90c
>
> Regards,
>
> Ish Sookun
>
> On 7 Jul 2022, at 00:49, Chittesh Sham <shamchittesh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 Thu Jul 07 2022 - 17:43:16 PST