Netgate Forum IPv6 Access Unsuccessful
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Hi,
The pfSense CE 2.7.2 router is configured with IPv4 and IPv6 and I set up NAT64 (jool on a seperate VM) and DNS64 (on pfSense). All that runs ok for some months.
On my Macbook I have different 'Location' configurations, one IPv4 only, one IPv6 only and one with both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled.
If I set it to IPv6 only I can't access https://forum.netgate.com. Checking the firewall logs I see only a TCP:S entry
[2001:...:9c69:9ba6]:52702 [2610:160:11:11::5]:443 TCP:S
Trying 'wget -6qO - https://forum.netgate.com' on a Hetzner cloud VM and a Hetzner dedicated server time out.
I don't run into problems with other website, if they don't have an IPv6 address NAT64 is used. That works pretty well.
TL;DR: Is the forum IPv6 enable and working for others? And if yes any hints for what to check? Searching the forum I found one very old thread which mentioned MTU size.
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@patient0 For me it is also not working in IPv6 only mode. But I don't think they said it should?
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@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.
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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.
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Hmm, I would have expected it to. let me see.....
Yup seeing that here too. Checking...
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And it works for me too (Switzerland & Germany)
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Yup, should be good now.
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@stephenw10 ok who wants to bet that the next spam that gets through is from IPv6 address ;)
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Just one ?
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@Gertjan so far that have been reported.. More to come I am sure..
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To really get the number of spammers down right now : disable IP4 for the forum ? ;)
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@Gertjan hahaha - yeah that could work too hehehe
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Hmm
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Let's try it for a week. But then, the forum will become quiet boring.
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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.
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Well given it was broken and 3 people noticed....
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@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 ;)