go IPv6, fade out IPv4

[ronnie sahlberg]

Aleksandar,
I don't think they are interested in any replies but this is just a
spam email for "buy our ipv6 service"
That is how I read it. It describes no problem, aside from globally
routable ip4 addresses becoming scarce and expensive, which I doubt
applies in any meaningful way to a SMB server,
and it describes no solution or action plan, aside from "we don't read
mailinglist replies, contact us directly".

In my opinion this is just a fraction above getting a phone call from
"This is from internet office for microsoft, you have virus and must
buy pre-paid google-store payment cards and we can restore internet"

Am impressed they did personalize the spam/scam email and even wrote
many paragraphs.  10/10 for effort.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 8:37 PM Aleksandar Kostadinov via
samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> What does it mean "building IP nodes", excuse my ignorance. This is from
> RFC 6540.
>
> It seems like Bulgaria is another country where it is rather hard to get
> IPv6 support. Depending on the actual location. So I'm trying to understand
> the RFC requirements and be able to properly advocate for that.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 3:09 PM Samba.org Admins via samba-technical <
> samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear Samba.org list members,
> >
> > as you might have heard, the pool of IPv4 addresses is exhausted since a
> > couple of years already. As a result of that, companies can buy IPv4
> > addresses in online auctions and the prices for that are going crazy.
> > You can have a look at https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales to see
> > the current prices that need to be paid. These days you can get more
> > money out of IPv4 address blocks than out of Bitcoin actually. Don't get
> > us wrong, we don't recommend either actually.
> >
> > Also our hosting provider was forced to raise the prices for our IPv4
> > addresses considerably and announced that the prices will be raised even
> > more in the near future. We're expecting that we'll soon have to pay
> > more for the IPv4 addresses than we pay for the server hardware itself.
> > For that reason we're planning to get rid of the rising costs of the
> > deprecated IPv4 addresses.
> >
> > We're offering all of our services via IPv6 since many years and we want
> > to switch them to IPv6-only in 365 days from now on (2023-04-01) to cut
> > the unpredictable costs of IPv4.
> >
> > Most people already have IPv6. If your provider doesn't offer IPv6 to
> > you, you should contact the provider and ask him to enable IPv6 asap.
> > You might even ask your money back if you had no IPv6 in the last couple
> > of years, because the 10 year old RFC 6540 mandates that IPv6 is a
> > must-have for nodes claiming to support IP. In other words, if you don't
> > have IPv6, then you don't have internet access.
> >
> > We created a web site for you to check if you have working IPv6 support:
> >
> > https://ipv6-test.samba.org
> >
> > If you see only a sad face, then you have only IPv4 support, if you see
> > a sad face covered by a happy face, then you have IPv6, which is good!
> >
> > Apart from your own internet connection, you should also check that your
> > mail provider supports IPv6:
> >
> > You can *receive* mail if at least one of the MX records of your mail
> > address's domain has an IPv6 address assigned.
> > https://mxtoolbox.com/MXLookup.aspx can help you to look that up.
> >
> > For testing if you can *send* mail to IPv6-only mail servers, we've set
> > up a test mail domain. If you send a mail to test at ipv6-test.samba.org
> > then you should be receiving an immediate mail refuse error while the
> > error should contain the text:
> >
> > 550 You can send mail to an IPv6-only mail server SUCCESSFULLY !
> >
> > If you got that error, then you can mail to IPv6 domains successfully.
> > If you get no error message or if you get any other error message, then
> > your mail provider does NOT allow sending to IPv6 domains.
> >
> > Luckily most mail providers DO support IPv6 these days, but there are
> > still some well-known ones which don't. If your mail services depend on
> > Yahoo (like yahoo.com), Apple (like me.com, icloud.com, mac.com), gmx,
> > web.de, t-online.de, posteo.de, Protonmail, Gandi, Mimecast, Zoho or
> > Rackspace hosting, then you will be out-of luck probably.
> >
> > We believe that providers who still don't support IPv6 in the year 2022,
> > have been sleeping at least for 10 years. If your provider is one of the
> > sleeping ones, you can try to wake him up (good luck!) to be able to
> > keep on using our services after we disabled deprecated IPv4.
> >
> > If your provider doesn't wake up (quite likely if he slept till now!),
> > then we recommend to switch to a provider that does support full
> > internet access, which includes IPv6 of course.
> >
> > In case you lack IPv6 in your corporate network, then ask yourself if
> > you acknowledged the work of the networking team enough in the past. Buy
> > them a coffee or a bottle of wine when asking them kindly to enable IPv6.
> >
> > We are aware that in *very* rare cases someone might live in a country
> > like Greenland, where it's not possible to find a provider with IPv6
> > support. In cases like that the friendly guys from HE still give you a
> > possibility to use IPv6, see http://tunnelbroker.net/
> >
> > Side note: Also github still doesn't support IPv6 and doesn't show any
> > sign to improve this
> > (https://github.community/t/github-com-not-reachable-via-ipv6/216624) -
> > samba.org switched to gitlab, which DOES support IPv6. We think that
> > nobody should deal with service providers that don't support IPv6 these
> > days.
> >
> > Please don't discuss this further here on the list (we'll ignore any
> > list replies); but you can send any feedback (both positive and
> > negative) to go-ipv6 at samba.org. We'll consider your feedback for our
> > future plans.
> >
> > Your Samba Admins
> >
> >