Subj : FidoNews submission
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Fri May 30 2025 08:59 pm
Hello Michiel!
30 May 25 10:55, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
MvdV> When we look at Fidonet, the list of IPv6 capable nodes presently
MvdV> has 108 entries. That is much less than half the number of unique
MvdV> entries in the nodelist, but with that we should keep in mind that
MvdV> the IPv6 nodes in the list are all or nearly all active nodes.
Just what I said: there are different angles to looks at statistics like these.
MvdV> Contrary to the global nodelist, there is very little dead wood in
MvdV> that list. So maybe the "about half" is not all that far off. Also,
MvdV> some or even many of the systems in Fidonet may be IPv6 capable
MvdV> without the sysop being aware of it. Except for the ones running
MvdV> very old hardware or some archaic OS, the systems themselves are
MvdV> IPv6 capable.
I always thought "old hardware or some archaic OS" was the very definition of a FTN system these days... ;-)
MvdV> Windows has IPv6 enabled by default since W7 and
MvdV> Linux is not far behind.
I think the question is not so much about the technical support (for Linux or *BSD, IPv6 is available since around 2000). I know a couple of admins who -even if their provider supports IPv6- simply disable it on all machines due to the unnecessary complexity it comes with.
MvdV> So what is your connection with feste-ip.net? AFAIK you are not
MvdV> running an IOv6 capable node.
