Post #3226785
2026-05-11 19:22 UTC
My setup is a pile of kludges built on top of each other over the last two decades.
I started with ULAs distributed through DHCP, connected to named, which allows hosts do declare their own name and let me access local services as though I had a real domain.
My ISP eventually started supporting IPV6, but only assigned /128, so the ULAs got NAT-6ed out to the real world.
I eventually learned how to request prefix delegation from the ISP and set up SLAAC.
So now, my PIv6 clients have a) their link-local address, b) the ULA, c) a "privacy" SLAAC, and d) a unique SLAAC. All my internal services still refer to the ULAs.
I don't think I'd recommend this system for someone setting up from scratch. The easiest thing would be to go with SLAAC, if you can get prefix delegation, and set your DNS/pihole to send the unique-SLAAC address of any servers you run.
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@felbane@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 12:57
>My ISP eventually started supporting IPV6, but only assigned /128 This is hilarious to me. "We've got 7.9 septillion addresses to play with in each of our v6/32 LIR allocations... if we follow the standard and give each customer a whole network prefix, that caps us at 4 billion customers per LIR! Nonsense, let's just give every household a single v6 address." It's like these people don't understand what IPv6 is for.