Comment on What is the deal with IPv6?
Robert7301201@slrpnk.net 5 days agoIf your ISP supports IPv6, then yes, you can use IPv6 to get a publicly reachable address when you would otherwise be unable to due to being behind a CGNAT. If your ISP does not support IPv6, you are out of luck. There are methods to translate between IPv4 and IPv6, but they require a public IPv4 address.
My friend switched to Starlink recently and was disappointed to find out he can’t host Minecraft servers and such due to CGNAT. Luckily, Starlink does support IPv6, so he was able to host his servers that way. The caveat is that we have to be IPv6 capable to join his server.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So I have Starlink. I run a full suite of self hosted servers at home. I can access them from my workplace, which is an ipv4-only network setup.
How? I have a virtual private server (VPS) that is connected to my home network over VPN, and I connect to the IPv4 address that the server has, which is then forwarded over the VPN to my home network.
It’s a bit of work to set up, but works just fine for most things.