Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To : Jason Bock
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 12:26 pm
Hello Jason,
On Monday February 24 2025 05:35, you wrote to me:
JB> I really do not use IPV6 personally, except maybe a couple machines in
JB> my lab. I have a couple clients that use it internally, usually in
JB> some manufacturing environments.
So you are an ICT professional?
JB> I thought it would take off much more than it has in the US.
It does indeed go a lot slower than I hoped and expected. Not just in he US. The US is actually doing pretty well on the global list.
JB> It would be good for me to start utilizing it more as it is something
JB> that I may be forced to use at some point in my profession.
What has stopped you from making your FidoNet node IPv6 capable?
JB> Do you use IPV6 regularly?
Yes. Almost all of my IP traffic goes via IPv6. Personal use only I should add. I have been a pensionado for many years now.
I have been advocating the use of IPv6 in Fidonet for more than 15 years. The list of IPv6 capable Fidonet nodes that is published weekly in Fidonews now counts 109 nodes.
I would have expected more. It seems that pioneer spirit that once made Fidonet booming is mostly gone. But maybe 109 out of an estimated 300 active nodes is not all that bad...
Oh wait. I see why your node does not supprt IPv6...
+ 12:02 [5180] call to 1:267/310@fidonet
12:02 [5180] trying f310.n267.z1.binkp.net [24.30.241.107]...
12:02 [5180] connected
+ 12:02 [5180] outgoing session with f310.n267.z1.binkp.net:24554
[24.30.241.107]
- 12:02 [5180] OPT MB CRC MD5 CRAM-MD5-16e1ccb99840be034f6da10c1fc5d10e
+ 12:02 [5180] Remote requests MD mode
- 12:02 [5180] SYS SiliconUnderground - ProBoard / FuNet WHQ
- 12:02 [5180] ZYZ Jason Bock
- 12:02 [5180] LOC Rochester, NY
- 12:02 [5180] NDL CM,IBN
- 12:02 [5180] TIME 2025/02/24 06:00:57 -5:00
- 12:02 [5180] VER Internet Rex 2.31 Win32 (binkp/1.1)
+ 12:02 [5180] addr: 1:267/310@fidonet
You are using Irex. One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, I dropped Irex well over 15 years ago is that it does not support IPv6 and as abandonware it never will. I never regretted switching from Irex to Binkd, changing from AMA to BSO and dropping POTS support with InterMail as collateral damage.
