2025-01-05, 07:47 AM
Just enable IPv6. You should receive at the very least a /64 prefix from your ISP, even mobile ISPs will give you that.
So long as you've got your router configured properly to request prefix delegation then you should have a static IPv6 prefix. Even if the ISP only hands out a /64 subnet, that's still **18,446,744,073,709,551,616** unique, globally routable IP addresses to choose from. You can take your pick from that range and assign your server a truly static IPv6 in addition to its SLAAC-derived IPv6. Then for like $2, get yourself a domain and set up a AAAA DNS record to point at your globally-accessible and static IPv6.
The idea that "many networks cannot handle IPv6 traffic" is total nonsense, infrastructure has been dual-stack for at least a decade if not two. If you find yourself behind CGNAT, without IPv6 support then you need to get a new ISP. If you happen across a VPS provider that doesn't support IPv6, run. Honestly it takes more work than it's worth to NOT deploy IPv6 these days. By design it's meant to take care of the majority of config auto-magically.
So long as you've got your router configured properly to request prefix delegation then you should have a static IPv6 prefix. Even if the ISP only hands out a /64 subnet, that's still **18,446,744,073,709,551,616** unique, globally routable IP addresses to choose from. You can take your pick from that range and assign your server a truly static IPv6 in addition to its SLAAC-derived IPv6. Then for like $2, get yourself a domain and set up a AAAA DNS record to point at your globally-accessible and static IPv6.
The idea that "many networks cannot handle IPv6 traffic" is total nonsense, infrastructure has been dual-stack for at least a decade if not two. If you find yourself behind CGNAT, without IPv6 support then you need to get a new ISP. If you happen across a VPS provider that doesn't support IPv6, run. Honestly it takes more work than it's worth to NOT deploy IPv6 these days. By design it's meant to take care of the majority of config auto-magically.