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ungleich.ch · Company blog · on HN since 2013
ungleich, a Swiss hosting company, writes on IPv6, Linux without systemd, Docker networking, Devuan, and self-hosted tools.
What HN saysHN links it for IPv6 projects like its ULA range list, plus its Devuan support and Emacs server post. Commenters also list it as an alternative host.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Turn off DoH, Firefox3 people · 408 points · first shared 2019 · 411 comments on HN
- 2A DNS name for every IPv6 address out there3 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Linux distros without systemd2 people · 353 points · first shared 2019 · 435 comments on HN
- 4Enabling IPv6 in Docker2 people · 14 points · first shared 2019 · 8 comments on HN
- 5Running the Browser in the Cloud2 people · 12 points · first shared 2019 · 4 comments on HN
- 6How to Distinguish IPv6 and IPv4 Traffic with Nginx2 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 7Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 8Emacs Server the Fun Way2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9Which IPv6 only services do you know?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10Managing IPv4 Islands with Jool and OpenWrt2 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 11The importance of decentralisation1 people · 300 points · first shared 2019 · 134 comments on HN
- 12OpenVPN vs. WireGuard – A Short Comparison1 people · 52 points · first shared 2019 · 52 comments on HN
- 13A love letter to ISC bind1 people · 49 points · first shared 2021 · 23 comments on HN
- 14An Introduction to NAT641 people · 40 points · first shared 2021 · 19 comments on HN
- 15[matrix] Conduit Beta at Ungleich1 people · 36 points · first shared 2022 · 14 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
pas · 2024-08-10
there's some list of ULA ranges allocated to organizations, no?
edit: ah, unfortunately it's not really standard, just a grassroots effort https://ungleich.ch/u/projects/ipv6ula/
imp0cat · 2024-07-31
But that does not make his solution any less valid. Or does it?
In fact, keeping something preloaded and ready to go is quite common, these two examples are off the top of my head:
- The Emacs server way - https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/emacs-server-the-smart-way/
- SSH connection reuse.
cylinder714 · 2022-11-24
ungleich, a hosting company in Switzerland, is a big supporter of Devuan, a systemd-free fork of Debian: https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2017/12/10/the-importance-of-devuan…
Arathorn · 2022-09-22
There are a bunch of people providing turnkey Matrix hosting - e.g. https://element.io/matrix-services from Element, or https://etke.cc/ and https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/.
partytax · 2022-08-19
* https://ungleich.ch/
* https://sourcehut.org/
* https://codeberg.org/
* https://www.ccc.de/
* https://new.paralelnipolis.cz/
* your local hackerspace or makerspace
kaliszad · 2021-08-15
There are btw. IPv6 only hosters out there, e.g. https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/ but other are offering IPv6-only as a cheaper option. Yes, it is not totally mainstream yet.
StavrosK · 2020-06-03
That link redirects me to https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/, which, what the hell?
It also seems to be conflating me using CloudFlare's DNS with me using DoH. Also, they're ironically removing my choice, because I chose CloudFlare's DNS yet I can't see the content because of that.
DyslexicAtheist · 2019-12-18
I don't see a benefit of the built in DoH in firefox since it is shifting the trust from my existing DNS provider to cloudflare[1] (based in the US).
Today I discovered that I couldn't just kill the disqus.com requests with my usual method by sink-holing them in /etc/hosts because for some reason firefox ignored the /etc/hosts file. While Chrome seemed to work fine and local dig requests also returned
disqus.com. 0 IN A 0.0.0.0
I was left dumbstruck.
I was able to override this in the about:config as described in [1].
I really don't like how mozilla ignors what is defined in /etc/nsswitsch.conf because this breaks all the blacklisting rules a user had set up themselves. At least they should have produced a huge warning telling users that this ignores any local blacklists that are in place.
[1] https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/
vhodges · 2019-11-18
Some what relevant
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/how-to-run-your-browser-in-the-cloud/ (which will ultimately lead you to https://guacamole.apache.org/)
telmich · 2019-11-14
That was a really bad miscommunication - especially as we are running out of IPv4 in Europe this month. - see https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/when-does-ripe-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses/
antisemiotic · 2019-10-22
IPv6 VPN is available for free from https://ungleich.ch/ipv6/vpn/ if you buy a VM from them.
Haven't tested it, just rembered datacenterlight from a HN thread about buying a mainframe.
somerandomqaguy · 2024-01-23
>Windows will try to auto configure with a 169.254 link local if DHCP is unavailable. Not sure if anyone is actually using them for LAN. They come up sometimes in point to point or for other shenanigans (commonly on cloud or virtualized networks for special services)
I've seen it done few times for niche devices and I've done it a few times when I needed a really quick network operational and didn't want to bother setting up any supporting infrastructure such as a DHCP server. Never for any production environment though.
I've toyed around with an IPv6 link local only environment but browsers don't support adding the zone identifier[1] for link local addresses. There's workarounds but in most cases for a fully isolated network it's about the same effort to setup a small DHCP server somewhere.
That said it's not a comprehensive solution, Android AFAIK still won't support DHCPv6. To get that to work AFAIK requires router advertisements and some more odd finagling if privacy extensions are enabled on the device.
[1]https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
rnhmjoj · 2023-10-04
There's virtually nothing on this, I guess nobody cares enough about IPv6 to spend time to actively remove IPv4 on their home. I did it, mostly for fun and because I hate managing a dual stack: I have been running a 100% IPv6-only network at home for a couple of years, now.
It works by having several IPv6-only subnets and a dual stack router (running openwrt) that performs stateful NAT64 [1] using Jool.
This allows to access both the IPv4 internet and local IPv4 islands[2] (basically old devices like printers).
There's no DHCP or NAPT involved: the router gets a /56 prefix from the ISP and performs prefix delegation, so every device does SLAAC and assigns itself a fully routable IPv6 address.
For DNS I use dnscrypt-proxy2: it's very easy to set up and it can do DNS64 and static hostnames mapping. Since prefix is stable, I just assign names to the stable EUI-64 addresses of the hosts I care about. Alternatively you can use bind for DNS64 and mDNS if you don't like manually assigning names. There's also a script to automatically assigns names based on ICMPv6 neighbours discovery [3].
I also host some services on the IPv4 internet from IPv6-only hosts: for this you need the NAT64 equivalent of port forwarding, which is setting up static BIB entries [4].
[1]: https://nicmx.github.io/Jool/en/intro-xlat.html#stateful-nat64
[2]: https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt…
[3]: https://github.com/AndreBL/ip6neigh/
[4]:…