[Witarea] Re: [v6ops] Re: Re: How to make an elegant IPv4 outage

The situation is worse with residential ISP services. Dynamic single-only
/64 that changes on every DHCPv6 renew/release or PPPoE reconnect or you
trip on your Ethernet cable for 1000ms and boom, new prefix. I'm currently
stuck with such an ISP right now.

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On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 at 1:35 AM, Franck Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> yes, some people indicated they use ULA and NAT66 to their dynamic IPv6
> address so they don't have to renumber when they change providers. sigh!
>
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> *From: *"Phillip Hallam-Baker" <[email protected]>
> *To: *"Franck Martin" <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *"Philipp Tiesel" <[email protected]>, "Nick Buraglio" <
> [email protected]>, "Xipengxiao" <xipengxiao=
> [email protected]>, "S Moonesamy" <[email protected]>,
> "witarea" <[email protected]>, "ietf" <[email protected]>, "v6ops" <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent: *Thursday, June 11, 2026 1:01:57 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Witarea] Re: [v6ops] How to make an elegant IPv4 outage
>
> Just got off the phone with a very large ISP after a failed attempt to get
> an IPv6 address.
>
> Turns out that I can have IPv6 but only dynamic and only if I am on
> dynamic IPv4. I cannot get IPv6 for my service with static IPv4 addresses.
>
> Seems to me that we are still a long way away from being able to shutter
> IPv4 completely.
>
> What I have not yet tried but should is trying to use the IPv6 mapping of
> my IPv4 addresses.
>
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