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The current generation Internet protocol IPv4 is nearing address exhaustion, and wide deployment of its successor IPv6 is just around the corner. Some ISPs h...
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KubeCon this year featured a panel discussion of IPv6 adoption. One of the panelists mentioned in passing that many organizations are unprepared for the security implications IPv6. With IPv4, most addresses were hidden by NAT; with IPv6, addresses are publicly routable. Firewalls can block external traffic, but might not be configured correctly. So I did an experiment on my home network. Would enabling IPv6 expose my devices on the public internet?
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[AI summary] A technical guide explains how to configure a dynamic IPv6 tunnel from Hurricane Electric on a FreeBSD-powered EdgeRouter Lite without extra client software.
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February 19th, 2020 How to configure Rails 6 with force_ssl using Nginx and Let's Encrypt
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