Subj : Re: Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Aug 06 2025 11:11 am

Hi Michiel,

On 2025-08-06 10:20:58, you wrote to Nick Boel:

 MvdV> In the past, in the IPv4 only age, some providers here offered
 MvdV> customers xxxx.provider.nl as a host name linked to their static
 MvdV> IPv4 address. xxxx was for he customer to choose. That practise
 MvdV> stopped over a decade ago and I do not see how that could be
 MvdV> extended to IPv6 to "work out of the box". For IPv6 there usually is
 MvdV> k\just one IP address and it points to the to of the customer's NAT.
 MvdV> That would not work "out of the box" for running a server because
 MvdV> the customer still had to configure a port forwward and possibly
 MvdV> puncj hols in firewalls but it could be a start. Fo IPv6 there is
 MvdV> not a single IP adres for the whole system. There is no way the
 MvdV> provider would know what IPv6 address to proconfigure for it to
 MvdV> "work out of the box".

 MvdV> I am still waiting for a sysops to report that their provider actually
 MvdV> provides such a "service".

 MvdV> So the question "if the sysop is unaware that he/she has IPv6, where do 
these
 MvdV> AAAA records come from" remains unanswered.

For a VPS the mac address is known by the VPS provider. If they also provide 
the host name, they can pre configure an IPv6 AAAA record, that is based on the 
mac address.

Bye, Wilfred.

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