When your free service (@BoxyBSD) kicks you out of bed on a Saturday morning.
The monitoring just alerted me about a potential abuse at my free hosting project and indeed - much traffic from a single user but luckily legit traffic.
Better safe than sorry.
Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html
Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #freebsd #networking #security #tcpip #ipv6 #ipv4 #bookofpf
I think the @BoxyBSD project is one of the best ideas for the #opensource community. Providing real and completely free #VPS instances (#VMs) with #IPv6 is really great for testing and learning.
I really love this project and if you are into #FreeBSD or any other #BSD this might be interesting for you. Just as it is also a #free alternative to bigger hostels like #Hetzner #OVH or #Netcup. I really love the philosophy and idea behind it
If you believe that AI is inevitable but #IPv6 is not, well, you're probably not even reading this since we don't live in the same reality.
Kære #fediverse jeg har brug for jeres hjælp! Kviknet/Ewii har desværre svigtet mig, min fiberforbindelse mangler IPv6, det har jeg nu manglet i mere end en uge! Hvilke udbydere garanterer IPv6 på en trådet/trådløs forbindelse på det sydlige Sjælland? Jeg har været glad for Kviknet, for deres kyndige teknikere, og for deres service. Jovist har der været bump på vejen, men det har jeg i det store billede kunne acceptere. Desværre har salget af Kviknet til Ewii, efterladt os private, der insisterer på også at have IPv6, i en dårligere situation. Er det kun med en professionel forbindelse, man i dagens Danmark kan sikre sig at have IPv6 i sin hustand? Jeg ved det er ferie-tid, men man må da kunne forvente at en ISP som minimum holder én opdateret om progress på den support-sag jeg har med dem? Halvdelen af den service jeg betaler dem i dyre domme for, virker ikke! Så kære #fedivers, hvor skal man gå hen for at være sikker på at få stabil #IPv6 ?
#Ewii #Kviknet
Feature request #IPv6 (again)
First comment 
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434456/stack-overflow-still-not-reachable-via-ipv6
). It's in London and everything for super low latency! I managed to get #alpinelinux installed through some hackery and migrate my blog and #snac instance to it.
Signups are currently deactivated!
We're now slightly below 1000 free VPS instances!
Within the last few weeks, coming with new locations around the world, we got more and more signups, where people can also test their setups across different geo locations @BoxyBSD.
Unfortunately, this also increases the required support which is really time consuming and only handled by @gyptazy. While everything is fully automated, support is another thing and I need a short break. Hope to open the signups quickly again.
PS: This project is completely free, not even any donation possibilities etc - just imagine a box would only cost 1$.
from my last boost:
"It's great that the EU is considering it's digital sovereignty, but I'd rather we had distributed rather than centralised resources. We need legislation to ensure that IPv4 is phased out and IPv6 support by our hosting and internet providers is mandatory. Because IP address scarcity is one of the things standing in the way for new hosting providers and digital innovation."
L’ @arcep y présente également des données inédites :
- sur l’interconnexion des réseaux de données : (https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-publications-chiffrees/linterconnexion-de-donnees/barometre-de-linterconnexion-de-donnees-en-france.html)
- la transition vers #IPv6 :(https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-publications-chiffrees/transition-ipv6/barometre-annuel-de-la-transition-vers-ipv6-en-france.html.)
L’#Arcep publie son baromètre #IPv6 et note une forte évolution de l’activation de l’IPv6 depuis 2018. Les prévisions pour fin 2027 montrent que la transition approchera de la fin pour les opérateurs grand public. Néanmoins, une disparité importante persiste fin 2024 entre les opérateurs, mais également entre les technologies d’accès internet.
- Rapport sur l'état de l'internet 2025 : https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/numerique-040725.html
- Baromètre IPv6 2025 : https://lafibre.info/ipv6/ipv6-barometre-2025/
#RapportInternetArcep D’après les chiffres du baromètre IPv6 2025 publié demain, quels acteurs ont le taux d’utilisation d’IPv6 le plus faible ?
Not really sure what to use for search now. DDG doesn't support IPv6 as I discovered last week while working on an #IPv6 only network. Neither does #Mojeek (and their language support is limited to ascii-only languages - even entering "français" it will ask "did you mean francais?" (same for umlauts) and Russian and Ukrainian aren't indexed at all).
Google and Bing are the only ones I know with IPv6 support.
We seem to be getting driven off the web, folks.
Some of you might know it already, some of you have heard it and well, I cannot hide it anymore: I've become a father. My son Leonhard was born in October last year and my life has been 720 degree rotated multiple times since then.
This means a lot of changes and is also the reason why I stepped down as a working group co-chair from the RIPE #IPv6 working group.
So there it is - I am officially old.
Brill: In the old days, we actually had to tap a wire into your phone line. Now with calls bouncing off satellites, they snatch'em right out of the air.
Brill: They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you.
FreeBSD 14.3 got a greatly improved support for Intel WiFi hardware (iwlwifi driver).
Finally, the AX210 (802.11ac) wifi card in my ThinkPad T480 works perfectly fine without having to rely on the wifibox workarround anymore.
IPv4 works perfectly fine
IPv6 work perfectly fine
Standby and resume woks
Speeds are phenomenal
Also the WiFi configuration is rather easy:
In /etc/rc.conf:
wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode sta regdomain ETSI country DE"
ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
In /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=2
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="Hoda-IOT"
scan_ssid=0
psk="my-secure-wifi-key"
priority=10
}
Amazing progress for FreeBSD on laptops :-) I really like it!
I spent some time earlier in the week with my laptop running on #IPv6 only while running some tests.
Very interesting to note which websites are still reachable.
chaos.social codeberg.org
sr.ht gitlab.org github.com debian.org abc.net.au bbc.co.uk
I was surprised that #SourceHut failed, as IPv6 support was added a while back, so I did some digging (literally - I used dig).
sr.ht is missing IPv6 glue records. Important, but easy to overlook if you run your own nameservers.
How do you get rid of the "we need to save addresses" attitude?
If did an addressing concept with a /48 per location with > 50% spare for more locations.
People are now planning with /60, /56, /52 per location because we must save addresses.
ProxLB v1.1.3 just got released!
ProxLB is a VM load-balancer for your Proxmox clusters also supporting affinity & anti-affinity rules.
GitHub: github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
Version 1.1.3: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.3
