Subj : Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To : Nick Boel
From : Dennis Slagers
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 07:41 am
Hello Nick!
06 Aug 25 17:11, you wrote to me:
NB> I guess what I meant was, if one does indeed configure their A record,
NB> do some providers possibly have some kind of catch all, default AAAA
NB> record that just points to A in hopes there's an IPv6 address also?
What Wilfred was stating and I overlooked:
when you buy a VPS you can have an IPv4 and IPv6 for you reserved.
they would than tell you that h28588.stratoserver.net is ie. 185.50.1.12 and 2010:383 etc.. for Ipv6
normally just for your own 'admin' access so that you do not have to remember the addresses
and the machine is than reachable for you. However as you are not in control of that DNS
you would never use that (normally) DNS name for your usage to the public.
You would go to a registrar to say: mynicedomain.com and configure it in ie. cloudflare with
fido.mynicedomain has the I record 185.50.1.12 and/or when you want to have IPv6 the IPv6 of your vhost
Of course: if you do enable IPv6 and it is availalbe on that machine it would not work on your mynicedomain.com but it would work on h28588.stratoserver, but as nobody knows that it would probably
not being used (or for scanners who scan such a VPS)
NB> I understand if one wants to point their DNS to a specific AAAA
NB> record, they can do it themselves. I'm just wondering with not many
NB> people even knowing if they have IPv6 (or not even knowing what it is)
NB> in a dual stack situation, if it might be automatically enabled
NB> somehow by the registrar.
A hoster could do that. A registrar or DNS provider cannot do that. The owner of a domain within a DNS provider can do that which is than (in my example stratoserver) who could do that.
NB> When IPv6 compatible routers first started coming out, there was no
NB> filtering and/or port forwarding. If you enabled IPv6, it was
NB> completely open. I don't think it took very long for them to wise up
NB> and address that, but I bet there's still people using those old
NB> routers.
Yes and that has changed (proably) to if IPv6 is enabled the firewall drops all until you open ports
IPv6 is still niche .. so it would not directly be available on OLD routers. Mainly they only do support IPv4 (been there done that as OEM/ODM manufacturer for end-user consumer market)
There are ISP's who give users routers with dual stack, but as I am not using that hardware I do not know if IPv6 is enabled by default.
But hey open ports is asking for trouble so they would drop every incoming connection until it is configured otherwise
Dennis
... The cloud is just someone else's computer.
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