JS> First, let me say that I am far from overly knowledgeable regarding JS> IPv6 operation and functionality.
JS> But after talking, being on hold to several levels of my ISP's support JS> staff over the last two hours. I feel pretty dang smart. :-)
;-)
Unfortunately it stopped working again:
+ 10:14 [2640] call to 1:282/1031@fidonet 10:14 [2640] trying f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net [2602:41:670c:a600:d1d2:c23d:4b1c:940c]... ? 10:15 [2640] connection to 1:282/1031@fidonet failed: {W32 API error 10065} A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host 10:15 [2640] trying f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net [65.103.12.161]:24554... + 10:15 [2640] bind -- getaddrinfo: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. (11001) 10:15 [2640] connected + 10:15 [2640] outgoing session with f1031.n282.z1.binkp.net:24554 [65.103.12.161]
JS> I had to explain my IP situation several different ways before I could JS> get them to comprehend what I actually needed. My situation is really JS> quite simple to me. I have a block of static v4 IP's I am told by my JS> ISP that each static v4 IP has a derived v6 IP assigned to it.
Hmmm...
There is a way to associate an IPv6 address with an IPv4 address, there is even a notation for it:
2001:1c02:1100:d200::192.168.178.11
But I have never seen this actually used by an ISP to issue IPv6.
JS> I asked them what the v6 Prefix and the v6 Gateway address(s) were. JS> They had little if any knowledge what my v6 IP's were let alone what JS> the prefix or gateway would be.
Odd. An ISP should know what address (blocks) they issue...
JS> Linux needs to know those settings before one can save the network JS> settings for that that Linux PC.
I am not familiair with Linux, but I would be surprised if it differs, in that contrary to Windows, it requires user intervention to ceate a working IPv6 setup.
Here I do not have to do anything to assign IPv6 addresses to my PC's. The router is assigned a /56 from the ISP. The router assigns a /64 to the local LAN en from that /64 IPv6 addresses are assigned to devices on the LAN. Either bij SLAAC or DHCP6.
It is only when running servers that I have to intervene. I have to punch a hole in the firewall for the ports concerned and I have to update the DNS..
JS> I have written a bash script that goes out and gets my v6 IP and IF it JS> has changed it then updates the settings at my DNS provider for that JS> domain. Which shouldn't be needed IF the v6 IP was actually static JS> like they say that it is.
So obviously you do not have static IPv6 addresses. :(
