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crawshawyesterday at 3:06 PM1 replyview on HN

(exe.dev co-founder here)

IPv6 does not work on the only ISP in my neighborhood that provides gigabit links. I will not build a product I cannot use.

Even when IPv6 is rolled out, it is only tested for consumer links by Happy Eyeballs. Links between DCs are entirely IPv4 even when dual stacked. We just discovered 20 of our machines in an LAX DC have broken IPv6 (because we tried to use Tailscale to move data to them, which defaults to happy eyeballs). Apparently the upstream switch configuration has been broken for months for hundreds of machines and we are the first to notice.

I am a big believer in: first make it work. On the internet today, you first make it work with IPv4. Then you have the luxury of playing with IPv6.


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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 11:04 PM

Have you looked at each service running through a cloudflare tunnel or (HE offers something similar too)?

(PS: I use exe.dev quite a lot whenever I want to have a project and basic scripting doesn't work and I want to have a full environment, really thanks for having this product I really appreciate it as someone who has been using it since day one and have recommended/talked about your service in well regards to people :>)