RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-16 Thread Simon Fogarty
MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2017 1:45 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Sure, Simon. That's what most people do. My requirements wouldn't be met by relying on a cell phone, though. I'm

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-15 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Ouch. I just bought a ZTE Axon 7 but haven't tried the hot spot feature yet. Bummer if it's IPv4 only! Ah well, I am planning to go LineageOS on this thing eventually--when I figure out all the pieces needed to get rooted, etc. Interestingly, it seems ZTE actually provides signed LineageOS

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-15 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
t; > -Original Message- > From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] > Sent: Saturday, 13 May 2017 7:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > This i

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-15 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Indeed. You'd think a prepaid service would check your funding balance before completing each and every call. At least, that's what I thought. Silly me! Scott Granados writes: > That’s a pretty good reason not to use flow-route.:). > > If you had a prepaid account I wonder how it left your

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday, 15 May 2017 6:32 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Simon, I bet you’re using SIP and don’t know it.:). If you’re using VOLTE on that phone that’s SIP

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-14 Thread Scott Granados
:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > This is correct, Simon. It's a problem both both SIP gateway services, and > also SIP hardware devices. > > Just in the past half year I've picked up a Snom D715 handse

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-14 Thread Simon Fogarty
er > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 3:38 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread Scott Granados
Yes but wouldn’t you know that several of their hotspots are V4 only including the ZTE model I have, that’s going to have to be updated probably by me buying a newer unit.:) You’re absolutely right, IPv6 is absolutely a requirement for the internet of things. We’re not going to get 50 billion

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread Scott Granados
That’s a pretty good reason not to use flow-route.:). If you had a prepaid account I wonder how it left your account running to accumulate that much more usage. That definitely wouldn’t build confidence for me either. Thanks for the V6 pointer of fail2ban. Honestly, I never see any

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
A key driver of IPv6 migration is the simple fact that the world is running out of--has already (in some cases) run out of IPv4 addresses. This includes ARIN who ran out about two years ago. Here's a few pages on this: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion ARIN:

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
I believe IPv6 is a fundamental requirement if Internet of Things is going to succeed. I believe Nest devices use some kind of IPv6 routing to phone home and thus provide on line management for end users. By the way, in case anyone isn't aware of it, T-Mobile is fully IPv6 enabled and has been

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
er > > > > -Original Message- > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 3:38 PM > > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Re: Ho

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
inal Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 3:38 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > I smell a

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-13 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Scott: Two items in this email ... 1.) fail2ban and IPv6 ... It appears they're working on on IPv6 support: https://ctrl.blog/entry/fail2ban-ipv6 As of today, however, it's not yet there on Fedora supported packages. 2.) Floroute is a good SIP

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
glegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 11:21 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > That seems to be the case. IF anything, SIP over IPv6 should be less > complicated. No NAT for exampl

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Simon Fogarty
: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? That seems to be the case. IF anything, SIP over IPv6 should be less complicated. No NAT for example. > On May 12, 2017, at 4:37 AM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > I've not been in a situation to use SIP but d

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
Well everything is standardized I mean IPv6 is well defined by RFC. What most carriers are doing is deploying in a dual stack mode. Big parts of the network are converted although your right there’s a lot to go. All your major backbone providers have been exchanging V6 for years now, the

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel C
I think the security implementation will take a while to get used to, especially when you have consumers who may not understand how it fully works completely. Regardless of what we are called, (System administrator, network administrator, Network engineer), we all have our duties, which are, to

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
You make a good point. There’s a lot of security features included now. I do think you’re right, I think some of it is fear or lack of understanding. I always thought Hurricane Electric offering their tunnel broker service ws a brilliant idea especially combined with the online

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel C
Well I certainly hope that providers will start to support IPV6, As it would make security that much better in the long run. My point for even writing, or replying, was just the state for my clients, they prefer IPV4, Meanwhile they don't realize the benefits of the new IP implementation, So I

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Scott Granados
On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 3:38 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > I smell a business opportunity. Some googling seems ti indicate the provider > you listed and someone called fl

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-12 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 3:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? I smell a business opportunity. Some googling seems ti indicate the provider you listed

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-11 Thread Scott Granados
I smell a business opportunity. Some googling seems ti indicate the provider you listed and someone called flowroute. THere’s tons of documentation on the advantages of SIP over IPv6 and lots of people convincing you to do it, especially on the enterprise side but no providers offering the

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-11 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Scott: Just a quick point to your email ... I believe fail2ban only works with IPv4. Personally, if I could disable listening for incoming SIP on Ipv4, I'd do so in a heartbeat. But for reasons I don't understand, the world of SIP to PSTN gateways is entirely IPv4. Therefore, I have no choice

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-11 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, few points here. First, as a network engineer, everyone I work with and know prefers V6 by a long shot. The finding of individual addresses is no harder on V6 than V4, you can display your Mac table the same way. The routers usually have separate V4 and V6 RIBS as well so your V4 doesn’t

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-11 Thread Daniel Chavez
Good day list, Most System Admin's, myself included, prefer IPV4 because it's a lot of what most provider's support, plus tracking down machine's that utilize IPV4 tends to be less stress on us. As far as IPV6 masks, they come in the form of letter:number:lettter:number, so banning them can be

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-11 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
btain addresses automatically > >>>> And so far no issues. > >>>> > >>>> If only my service provider did IP v 6 I'd switch ip v4 off, apart from > >>>> my work place I don't really need it > >>>> > >&g

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-09 Thread Scott Granados
made sure my servers had IP v6 >>>> switched on and DHCP and DNS set to obtain addresses automatically >>>> And so far no issues. >>>> >>>> If only my service provider did IP v 6 I'd switch ip v4 off, apart from >>>> my work place I don't rea

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
than through one to the rest it would be much easier. -Original Message- From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Sunday, 7 May 2017 5:03 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? So, Simon

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-06 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
y, 6 May 2017 2:17 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > Congrats, Simon! Big job, huh? > > Yes, the Apple IPv6 implementation is quite good, and should really be > uneventful when deployed. I wouldn't turn off 4 f

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-06 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
g it on. > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] > >> Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2017 2:13 AM > >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > >> Subject: R

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:51 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? My ISP doesn’t natively support it either. I’m using 6 to 4 tunneling to get to the IPv6 network

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Scott Granados
s.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, 5 May 2017 12:09 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > Well, if you’re service provider isn’t doing IPv6 how are you getting IPv

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Simon Fogarty
] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, 5 May 2017 12:09 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Well, if you’re service provider isn’t doing IPv6 how are you getting IPv6 connectivity? Are you tunneling through a tunnel broker like hurricane

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Simon Fogarty
tried it completely. -Original Message- From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2017 2:17 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Congrats, Simon! Big job, huh? Yes

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Scott Granados
, apart from my >> work place I don't really need it >> >> And nothing appears to be different so bring it on. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] >> Sent: Saturday, 29 A

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
via MacVisionaries > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] > Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2017 2:13 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > Is IPv6 worth the bother? Well, that depends on what you do, of course. &

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-05 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hey folks, Going back a step to IP V6 connectivity, I've switched my machines at home to IP v6 using I think it was 6n4 however If I disable IP v4 I can't surf the net any longer The cause I believe is due to the ISP not yet supporting IP v6 Can anyone advise if there is a way to get my

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-04 Thread Scott Granados
t; >> I have thought I might change the home network to IP V6 just to have a play >> but need to ensure that RDP and other related services stay active on my >> servers so I don't go losing acess and connectivity. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisi

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-05-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Is IPv6 worth the bother? Well, that depends on what you do, of course. If all you do is browse the web and pick up email somewhere, the answer is probably no. If your home systems do voip or host any services, including just listening

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
ssage- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Chavez > Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2017 11:20 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > Good day, > As I'm a S

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-28 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Scott: I have had the same experience with applications. Sometimes it's a matter of configuration, but usually certain apps just aren't 6 friendly for whatever reason. When I first got native 6 I tried a little experiment and turned off 4 entirely just to see whether I could do what I do

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-28 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
groups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Chavez > Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2017 11:20 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > > Good day, > As I'm a System Admin, I, too, prefer IPV6.

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-28 Thread Scott Granados
> > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Chavez > Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2017 11:20 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? > >

RE: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra? Good day, As I'm a System Admin, I, too, prefer IPV6. However, IPV6 depends on the ISP and the IP pool being pulled from. Most ISP's still use IPV4 for backwards compatibility for older devices, though most modem'/router combo's

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Scott Granados
That’s what it seems, the interesting problem is getting my applications to use V6. I’ve seen it work a little but not consistently. I’m thinking Netgear’s implementation may have issues but I’ll keep noodling around with it. I’m able to pass data over the link just name resolution seems odd

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Scott: You should definitely be routable in a Tunnel Broker 6to4. I used one for years before I finally got native 6. The only times it broke for me occured when I lost my underlying, ISP delegated 4 address and had to re-register the tunnel end point. You should be able to do anything you

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Scott Granados
I think I got it although I’m not quite sure why.;). I think part of my issue is I’m working with a 6 to 4 tunnel in stead of a 6 in 4 tunnel which uses the assigned public routable blocks from HE. This gives me some sort of 2002 address but does seem to be routable, I trace routed and it went

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Scott: Try specifying Google's IPv6 resolvers: 2001:4860:4860:: 2001:4860:4860::8844 Scott Granados writes: > Ok, so I put 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in place. Still behaving the same. I may > try to delete the servers (my router and another IPV6 address) from the local > resolver. I can

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Scott Granados
Ok, so I put 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in place. Still behaving the same. I may try to delete the servers (my router and another IPV6 address) from the local resolver. I can resolve the v6 names though which is odd, that seems to work fine. I can also ping them using ping6. > On Apr 27, 2017, at

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yes, first look at DNS. Perhaps use Googles DNS servers. I highly distrust default DHCP servers provided by Home use Internet service providers. I have seen significant issues with them resolving things incorrectly to try to make you send your traffic in places it shouldn't go. On Thu, Apr 27,

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Scott Granados
Well I have end to end ping by IP resolution so I can for example ping the IPV6 addresses at google. SO routing is working. I have a 6 to 4 tunnel up with Hurricane Electric and it appears that Things are good other than the protocol selection. It could be DNS related I suppose but I can

Re: How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Daniel Chavez
Good day, As I'm a System Admin, I, too, prefer IPV6. However, IPV6 depends on the ISP and the IP pool being pulled from. Most ISP's still use IPV4 for backwards compatibility for older devices, though most modem'/router combo's employe both IPV4 and IPV6 support, but this IPV6 support usually

How to prefer IPv6 on the Mac OS X Sierra?

2017-04-27 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, so I’ve been reading that IPv6 connections should be preferred under OS X Sierra but it doesn’t appear that’s happening. If I test my IPv6 connection I get a valid IPv4 and IPV6 address, It shows I’m using a 6 to 4 tunnel, ping6 and a manual nslookup show a valid record returned when