IPv6 at Home: Why It Matters Now and How to Stop Ignoring It

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Most of us have spent two decades treating IPv6 as someone else’s problem — a thing that exists, that we’ll get round to, that the internet seems to run fine without. Meanwhile it quietly crept onto your network anyway. Your phone is probably using it right now. A large slice of traffic to Google, Netflix and the big CDNs is already IPv6 over your home connection, and you never lifted a finger. The question stopped being “should I enable IPv6” some time ago. It’s now “should I keep pretending the IPv6 that’s already running is something I understand.”

BGP at Home: What Happens When You Peer with Your ISP

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of homelabber who is no longer satisfied with port forwarding and dynamic DNS. They want their own IP addresses — a block that belongs to them, that they can announce to the internet themselves, that doesn’t change when they switch ISP and doesn’t sit inside someone else’s allocation. They want, in short, to run BGP. I have done this, and I am here to tell you it is equal parts genuinely useful and gloriously over-engineered for a house.

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IPv6 at Home: Why It Matters Now and How to Stop Ignoring It

BGP at Home: What Happens When You Peer with Your ISP