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teilo
6y

I love Mikrotik. Just fucking love them. I also love my residential fiber service. Small company. Synchronous 125M service. No caps. Bandwidth is always there.

BUT... They use PPPOE (seriously guys?), and the IP changes on *every single re-connect*. Also: no IPv6 support. I know. I don't need it. But I want it.

Enter DNSMadeEasy's DDNS, Hurricane Electric's 6to4 tunnel service, and my Routerboard AH100x4. I wrote a script that runs on the router whenever my IP changes. It updates my DDNS record, updates my 6to4 tunnel IP using HE's API, and updates my local 6to4 interface's IP.

It just works. My public IPv4 may change, but the /48 IPv6 networks on my LAN side stay fully routeable.

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  • 1
    6y
    afraid.org dynamic dns is much better imo

    Also, I hope you actually filter ipv6 and not just have full blow in both directions
  • 1
    6y
    @Linux Of course I filter IPV6. I'm not crazy.

    As for DDNS: I pay for DNSMadeEasy, and my DDNS hosts are on my own domains. They are the best commercial DNS host I've found, and I also use them at my company. Been with them for many years.
  • 1
    6y
    @teilo

    The reason I asked about IPv6 is that too many does not understand that IPv6 is not NATed :P

    Anyway, I have heard alot of good about DNSmadeEasy actually. And being a company using that is better rather than the paid version of afraid.org (because it is only managed by a few people)

    Myself, I have my main and most important domain at my work (we provide DNS and domains since 1994 here in Sweden), mostly because I have some influence about the direction about our services :P
  • 1
    6y
    @Linux Heh. Yeah. I remember people freaking out about that in the early days re: Apple's airport routers. It was much ado about nothing. They were already doing session-based filtering by default, but everyone was demanding NAT.

    I do leave ICMPv6 open. There's a certain amount of glee in being able to directly ping a host on my home LAN from anywhere.
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