IPv6 [LWN.net]

IPv6

Posted Jul 9, 2022 5:53 UTC (Sat) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: IPv6 by corbet
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Inspired by yours, I tried an equally precise and rigorous experiment. Context: bog standard (Debian Gnu-)Linux box. I moved a couple of weeks ago. In my old flat, I gave up on IPv6 (your bog standard DSL, one of ghe Big Providers around here). In my new flat (same setup, the other of the Big Providers, yes, we have more than one)... surprise:

tomas@trotzki:~$ ping lwn.net
PING lwn.net(prod3.lwn.net (2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe82:68b2)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from prod3.lwn.net (2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe82:68b2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=102 ms
64 bytes from prod3.lwn.net (2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe82:68b2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=102 ms
...

So it seems it's slowly coming, not just for smartphones