On 2023-04-18 14:34, James Knott wrote:
On 2023-04-18 04:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
One, the ISP said they would not give persistent addresses.
The more I talk to you the more I get the impression Spanish ISPs are deliberately incompetent.
Oh, they are very competent in sucking all the money they can get from us :-/
Two, the "ip addr" says they are temporary. See the command output in my first command.
inet6 2a02:9140:.../64 scope global temporary *dynamic* valid_lft 86398sec preferred_lft 62571sec inet6 2a02:9140:.../64 scope global *dynamic* mngtmpaddr valid_lft 86398sec preferred_lft 86398sec
I get similar. If the computer has been up for more than a day, you should also start seeing "deprecated". Those are the temporary privacy addresses that have been replaced by newer ones.
Right, I realized this later.
So, they can't, they are a pain. Firefox refuses to use them. Known old bug.
Again, why bother? You're causing problems for yourself. Use DNS.
LOL. How? I am supposed to write the addresses of my local machines into my internal only DNS server, or the /etc/hosts file. HOW? They are dynamic addresses, they change. At least the prefix changes. The postfixes, one is temporary, so it is out, the other is fixed (concocted from the MAC, I think). How on earth can I arrange to write into the DNS server the actual IPv6 addresses of all my machines, if they are not fixed? Or you mean an external DNS server? Then what address do I write there for accessing my home server? It could be the IPv6 address of my server itself. Maybe not, the router firewall blocks it. Then it has to be the external IPv6 address of my router, which will do some virtual addressing trick, same as it does for IPv4, and send to the internal server. Huh? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)