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My ISP gave me an interesting scare a couple of minutes ago. As you know if you do not want to pay them for a permanent IPv4 address, which I consider obsolete networking, they remotely reboot your gateway device and assign it a random IP out of one of their IPv4 pools.

This time it didn't take the usual long 30 to 90 Seconds to reboot the device and transfer credentials to obtain the new IP.
The Gateway got in an infinite loop somewhere and I had to Power it off, then had to wait 90 seconds to power cycle it before it took 180 seconds for the device to finally get the new IP.

Someone screwed up the login sequences for the xDSL devices of which the hashtag is in the toot and now we as the paying customer again have to pay for it in wasted time.

Luckily this power cycling off xDSL devices occurs only once in 6 weeks and usually I do not use the internet at that point in time.

In case you are wondering my Gateway uses obsolete technology, is forcibly assigned by the ISP and it's also cursed with a extremely low transfer speed.

I will include a speedtest after this toot

#xDSL#ISP#Services

Question to the network people out there:

Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?

Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?

#ip#ipv6#ipv4

I'm looking for #recommendations for a UK-based #domain #registrar.

Requirements:
- MFA auth
- be a UK entity
- VAT invoices

Anti-requirements:
- not be Beasts (as I already like+use them, and the purpose of this change is to decouple my hosting+DNS-provider from my registrar)
- not be PF (I sincerely hope that TB-at-PF is doing ok, but their lack of responsiveness on a recent issue has made me conclude that relying on a 1-man-band for domain regs isn't sensible)

#tech#ISP#domains

Well that was weird. Solid red lights on router for more than 20 minutes. Used the. ISP automated troubleshooting tool - it said "we'll need to send and engineer to fix the issue which is outside your home complete with expected fix by date of the 17th....
10 minutes after that everything seems to be working again...Hmn. 'Fixed' or not, time will tell.... 🤔