Re: IPv6 networking problems in 14.3

On 9/18/2025 16:36, Chris Ross wrote:
>> On 17 Sep 2025, at 14:20, Chris Ross<[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, on the idea of trying to back-date the whole machine, I have ZFS
>> snapshots of the whole root from just before the first upgrade,
>> Aug 7/8.  […]
> Brief update, more to come later I hope.
> I don’t know all of the magic of freebsd-update, but I was able to
> figure/infer that it created versions (clones?) of the root fs
> at points of upgrade.  I was able to swap one of those in, leaving
> the current system where it was at zroot/ROOT/default.  I’ve set
> bootfs to the older 14.1 system and gotten that running.
>
> It _started_ looking bad, doing what the newer system was doing
> by sending out SOLICIT6 messages and not getting an answer from my
> ISP.  But as Karl noted, if I waited long enough (2ish hours in my
> case), it eventually did get an answer!

You're lucky -- KUB (my ISP) told me that their "binding" remained valid 
for *_three weeks_*.  Needless to say that's not nice if it gets mad at 
you..... :-)

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