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?

  • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 months 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.

  • Marty_TF@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    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

      • axzxc1236@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        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)

          • axzxc1236@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 months 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

              • axzxc1236@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Personally have good experience with https://github.com/Nyr/wireguard-install, there are other script that are available by searching “wireguard setup script github”.

                Note: By default Wireguard config generated will route every bit of traffic through Wireguard (which will be slower and probably not wanted in this situation), to change that change AllowedIPs field in Wireguard config, lets say all your machines are assigned 1.2.3.xxx as IP address, to only access other 1.2.3.xxx IP through wireguard, change the config to AllowedIPs = 1.2.3.0/24.