• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 58
• Date 01 Nov, 26

You usually can't connect to an IPv6 VPS because one of five things is wrong: your local network has no IPv6, the VPS firewall blocks IPv6 traffic, SSH or your app isn't listening on IPv6, the AAAA...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
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• Date 31 Oct, 26

Bandwidth is the maximum rate a VPS connection can carry. Network speed is the performance you and your users get in practice. When you weigh bandwidth vs network speed on a VPS plan, bandwidth tells....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 186
• Date 25 Oct, 26

NAT64 and DNS64 let an IPv6-only VPS reach services that only have IPv4 addresses. DNS64 builds a synthesized AAAA record from a domain's IPv4 A record, and NAT64 at the gateway translates your...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking Security
• View 338
• Date 11 Oct, 26

IPv6 security means protecting IPv6-enabled networks, servers, and applications from problems like rogue router advertisements, Neighbor Discovery abuse, misconfigured firewalls, and dual-stack...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
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• Date 04 Oct, 26

If you're looking up how to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6, you probably expect a single command that flips a switch. That command doesn't exist. Moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is an operational change. It...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 451
• Date 28 Sep, 26

To configure Nginx for IPv6 on a VPS, add IPv6 listen directives to your server block — listen [::]:80; and listen [::]:443 ssl; — run sudo nginx -t, reload Nginx, open ports 80 and 443...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 504
• Date 20 Sep, 26

Here's the short version. An IPv6 /64 is the standard subnet size for a single LAN segment, and a /48 is a bigger allocation that holds 65,536 /64 subnets. You assign one /64 per network segment, and....

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 587
• Date 12 Sep, 26

An AAAA record is a DNS record that points a domain or subdomain to an IPv6 address. To point your domain to an IPv6 VPS, open your DNS zone, add an AAAA record for the hostname you want, paste in...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking
• View 718
• Date 09 Sep, 26

SLAAC and DHCPv6 are the two ways hosts get IPv6 addresses. With SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration), a device builds its own address from a prefix advertised by the router. With DHCPv6, a...

• by Ethan Bennett
• in Networking Cloud
• View 646
• Date 03 Jun, 26

Cloud computing tools are the platforms and software you use to build, deploy, run, secure, and monitor workloads on remote infrastructure. Some are full-blown providers (think AWS or Azure). Others.....