Finally got around to enabling #IPv6 at home for everybody on wifi. I've had it on a few static servers for a couple of years, but not on general wifi. I'm kinda curious to find out what happens. Do things randomly break? does other stuff start working better? Will anybody even notice at all?
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@dch Users should not notice any change, only important things are to reduce the MSS on your router/firewall by 20 bytes and to set the IPv6 DNS servers. Windows automatically uses the IPv6 gateway it learned from router advertisements for it's DNS queries, and if it does not forward or answers them, your DNS might be slow.
@subnetspider both TIL there - I don’t think i have DNS listening on IPv6 yet…
@dch Glad I could help.
Also, some routers allow to set the MSS for IPv4 and IPv6 separately, or do it automatically. :)
@subnetspider it’s all FreeBSD here not surprisingly so I expect to learn more today than originally planned :)
@dch several things will be faster as you avoid CGNAT, you'll see...
@cynicalsecurity actually that’s given me a great idea — TLS SNI sniffing of all outbound IPv6 connections should give me a good view of what’s switched.
