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I had some fun yesterday messing around with my home LAN

doing ipv6 stuff

tis fun 🙂

(I've always been a bit of networking nerd at heart too)

I am surprised that IPv6 is not as ubiquitous as I thought it would be. I remember when I learned about them in vocational school 8 years ago. I would have thought by now that we would be using them for everything 😄

One day... 🙂

I thought that ipv6 is the default at many places now. The ipv4 thing is there because everyone is afraid of backwards compatibility. (guess who has the oldest networks?)

An ipv6 link local address is normally provisionsed on all NICs these days, on mostly all OSs (unless it's turned off etc.. etc...), so you can ping other local hosts on the same broadcast domain

But, having a company actually configure IPv6 routing and having a dhcpv6 server up and running etc...well, not that many. Bigger ones perhaps...

(then you have SLAAC as well...)

I know some of the words you just said 😄

You can test if you have ipv6 running here

I get a 10/10

I was recently bitten by not having an AAAA record for a domain

0/10 …. guess that’s a bummer

The adoption rate of ipv6 is growing, simply because the ipv4 address space is now exhausted, and NAT will only take you so far

About 30% of the top 1000 websites are accessible via ipv6. Still a ways to go, but every day it grows.

I think one of the biggest fears is the unfounded notion that because every device on your network gets it's own globally unique ipv6 address (if your ISP hands them out), then suddently every device on your network is reachable from the outside.

That's simply not true. Your firewall will block any unestablished connections from the outside to inside your network, just like normal.

It's funny, the amount of unique addreses that I can provision for my own internal network, using my own unique local address, i.e., fd10::/64 is over 18 quintrillion addresses

I can have over 18 quintrillion hosts in my own little subnet at home

🙂

what I need is my own personal search index for the websites I use most often

Bring back 'Ask Jeeves', I say

never used it

Ahh, Jeeves

many moons ago

that and AltaVista

In 2000, AltaVista was used by 17.7% of Internet users while Google was only used by 7% of Internet users, according to Media Metrix.[15]

how times have changed

I remember being blown away because you could actually "ask" stuff to http://askjeeves.com

in any case, no remote service could do what I want, that's the point 😐

you mean something like a site:A.com, stuff query @ashnur? if google supported more than 1 site on the site: list

no

i'm clearly not understanding 😬

right now a large chunk of my browsing goes through google, but it's only due to my laziness and the fact that I use lots of websites that they themselves are changing constantly, otherwise, I could set up bookmarks and bookmarklets and snippets and scraping and whatnot.

the problem with this is that 1. can't index authenticated websites or anything that's private 2. I can't do analytics on my own searches very easily.

ah, and it's particularly [1] that's the issue

if you start thinking about it

there are many benefits of having an individualized distributed search index

but like all p2p stuff, goes against the status quo, which is about trying to capture users, not about trying to build a specific tool for a specific problem (as opposed to rent seeking, where you charge someone for every hit with the hammer 😄 )

I know about several solutions where people setup mirrors for search engines. But I don't know the details, seems like something else. e.g. https://searx.ir/

https://searx.space/

https://searx.github.io/searx/admin/plugins.html like, these are all nice but