Netgate Forum IPv6 Access Unsuccessful

Bob.Dig

@patient0 For me it is also not working in IPv6 only mode. But I don't think they said it should?

patient0

@Bob-Dig thanks for checking it out.

But I don't think they said it should?

That is true, but then they didn't say it shouldn't ... and it got an IPv6 address.

Gertjan

IPv6 forum (forum.netgate.com) access was working for years. That is, it was working for me, accessing the forum from France.
A month or two ago, that changed.

root@ns311465:~# dig forum.netgate.com AAAA +short
2610:160:11:11::5

A IPv6 is avaible.
Connecting to is another thing.

stephenw10

Hmm, I would have expected it to. let me see.....

Yup seeing that here too. Checking...

Gertjan

@stephenw10

is back

What was it ?

patient0

And it works for me too (Switzerland & Germany)

stephenw10

Yup, should be good now.

johnpoz

@stephenw10 ok who wants to bet that the next spam that gets through is from IPv6 address ;)

stephenw10

johnpoz

@stephenw10 what did I tell you ;)

https://forum.netgate.com/user/marie11

Spammer - IPv6 ;)

Gertjan

@johnpoz

Just one ?

johnpoz

@Gertjan so far that have been reported.. More to come I am sure..

Gertjan

@johnpoz

To really get the number of spammers down right now : disable IP4 for the forum ? ;)

johnpoz

@Gertjan hahaha - yeah that could work too hehehe

stephenw10

Hmm

Bob.Dig

Let's try it for a week. But then, the forum will become quiet boring.

Gertjan

@Bob-Dig

Would the forum become inaccessible for half of all potential visitors ? less ? more ?
I presume most ISPs have some IPv6 capabilities these days **. Europe, the states, probably China, everywhere where pfSense can be used is a place where IPv6 should work by now.

Of all people, pfSense admins should be the ones being able to make IPv6 work.

** I'm trying to be positif about IPv6 today.

stephenw10

Well given it was broken and 3 people noticed....

johnpoz

@stephenw10 said in Netgate Forum IPv6 Access Unsuccessful:

and 3 people noticed....

and the 2nd two were prob ones that just checked after the 1st posted it ;)

Gertjan

@johnpoz @stephenw10

It started about 2 months ago.
My browser still said to me : this site has IPv6 avaible, I have IPv6 avaible, so let's do it. And then nothing ... so some fallback mechanism to IPv4 was kicking in after "500 milli sec delay" or so.
It wasn't really disturbing.