Very quietly I have transitioned substantially all of my #homelab services to exclusively #ipv6 over the past few days.

[zrail@hachyderm.io]

Very quietly I have transitioned substantially all of my #homelab services to exclusively #ipv6 over the past few days.

No drama. No performance regressions. Just a lot more flexible and resilient.

I think the next big-ish project is upgrading all of the #esphome devices and enabling ipv6.

@homelab #selfhosting #selfhosted

[hugo@social.treehouse.systems]

@zrail nice!

My ESPHome kit currently has v6. Tasmota will do v6 for ESP32 units out of the box, but still requires you to compile with non-default options for ESP8266 kit last time I checked.

I think there is still a ways to go for single stack v6, eg getting RDNSS support, but things are getting there.

[drscriptt@oldbytes.space]

@zrail @homelab do your devices connect to any IPv4 only devices / services?

If so, what are you using and how are you using it to go between IPv6 only devices and other IPv4 only devices?

[pugmiester@bsd.network]

@zrail @homelab I enabled IPv6 on all of my esphome devices (a mix of mostly esp8266's and a couple of D1 mini's) last week while I was troubleshooting a weird legacy IP problem (still not resolved, but mitigated thanks to IPv6). No dramas. They're talking to the Home Assistant API and MQTT just fine over IPv6.

[pugmiester@bsd.network]

@zrail @homelab I should mention, everything is still dual stack, but the weird legacy IP problem has me reconsidering that.

[kaasbaas@social.oevents.co.za]

@zrail @homelab would you mind putting out some kind of writeup/guide?

I have circled this idea at least twice in the past, and everytime got stymied by

a) it looks complex AF ‍️
b) my isp still does not hand out out IPv6 , so them I'm left with the question "what did I gain even if I slogged through the technicals of doing this for my internal LAN??"

[zrail@hachyderm.io]

@drscriptt @homelab well, I guess to be clear the network is dual stack. Hosts have IPv4 addresses but access to services, and traffic between, is all IPv6 because I removed IPv4 from DNS.

[zrail@hachyderm.io]

@kaasbaas @homelab I might, yeah. I started something a couple weeks ago but haven't had energy to keep working on it.

It's really not that complex, though. Atter having gone through it, ipv6 honestly feels conceptually simpler than what ipv4 looks like today. Definitely feels more intentional.