Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely. There are (sadly) too many devices and services with obscure bugs when it's enabled, and I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole sysadmin just to keep a full IPv6 stack.
I'm not sure we'll ever see full IPv6 adoption.
Jeff Geerling
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2026-06-08 02:01:11 UTC
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