As a interesting test; I temporarily ran a public wireless network
with only IPv6 connectivity for a short while.  Now I couldn't really
find a lot of information online about best practices for this.
Therefore I turned off my DHCP for the subnet and continued to perform
route advertisements with 'RDNSS' added in for this subnet.  This was
set to point at my local caching resolver on its V6 address.

I then connected several Android phones, several iPhones, a computer
running Windows 10 and my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 to it.  All of
these just worked except for Ubuntu however it soon became painfully
obvious just how little works via IPv6 at present.  Big stuff was no
problem; so Microsoft; Google; owned service etc but even stuff like
the BBC is very much v4 only at present.

I had a poke around and it seems like 464xlat appears to be a well
supported (on mobile devices) and less troublesome transition
mechanism (say vs DNS64) however I could find little information as to
whether compute type devices support this widely yet and if so how to
advertise the functionality on your network to allow compatible
devices to automagically configure themselves.  Any pointers would be
appreciated!

Till then I continue to roll out dual stack to my clients with
excellent results on the BT network.  I also make no apologies to BT
for being 'that person' who was the first to ring in when they broke
all of the early allocations during some maintenance last year!

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