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.

-> NM.


Regards,
Gerrit

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