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How do you use only ipv6 server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Recently I bought vps which have only ipv6. It's obviously that I don't have ipv6 home. So, here is question: how do you interact with such servers?

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[–] Im_old 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

First questio is: can you ask your home internet provider for ipv6?

Otherwise sign up to tailscale and connect your vps server (and your pc/devices) to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Can't ask ISP D:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Used to have miredo, which worked pretty well, but think they killed that.

Should still have old 6to4 protocols, they use ipv4 address tricks to get everything working.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

There are tunnel protocols like 6to4, 6RD and so on to allow you to get an IPv6 connection tunneled to you. Various routers do support it.

Another option is to ask your ISP if he will supply a IPv6 subnet to you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

have you tried using a vpn, e.g. tailscale?

extremely easy to set up, if you are a selfhost purist, there's headscale as a direct alternative.

only really good at doing stuff in a personal workspace, not really made for exposing to the public internet, still very possible tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

how can I use vpn for it? I have another vps with both ipv4 and 6. But I can't find solution for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Great, if you need to SSH into Ipv6 only machine, SSH has -J flag which can be used to specify "jump host" (basically run SSH through SSH)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

what if I want to host something on it? I need reverse proxy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Host a website that needs to be accessible from your own machine or public?

Former situation: Can be solved by setup reverse proxy on the other VPS, or join machines to a VPN server (like tailscale,, Zertoier or Wireguard server)

Later situation: Cloudflare or other CDN, setup reverse proxy on the other VPS.

Less accessible option but available for public: Tor or I2P