Sites I use still without IPv6

Earlier this year, I went over a list of some of the world's top websites.

I thought this might not be particularly accurate for an actual list of websites one person would use, so I made a small bash script to scrape the websites in my bookmarks (which is synced across phone and desktop, so a good mix of websites).

For now I haven't sorted it by popularity but I wouldn't imagine that it would be too hard to use one of many site ranking tools.

I thought I would go over some of the bigger ones and name and shame and then provide a percentage point for websites which still have not gotten themselves an IPv6 address after becoming a draft standard 27 years ago, having a scheduled global adoption date 13 years ago and becoming an Internet Standard eight years ago, this is an ancient thing that most public wifi access points I join have never heard of and only exists as far as I can see in corporate offices and private homes, despite it being one of the standards everything must have already adopted years ago.

Out of a total of 4,617 registered domain names which resolve, I have bookmarked over the last bunch of years, only 2,108 had an IPv6 address (only 46%!) which is frankly shocking, leaving the remaining 2,509 IPv4-only which will be inaccessible to many new setups if they do not upgrade by the time that internet service providers are forced to go IPv6-only. Note that I didn't check the actual availability, this is purely DNS.

A few notable, shocking examples of websites that still have not updated are ProtonVPN, Samsung, AllenAI, Amazon, Pokémon, Arxiv, Nextdoor, CanIUse, Discord, Uber, Mozilla, Imgur, MathsJam, Meetup, Ebay, Sky and Quora along with many gaming, e-commerce, social media, comparator, food and parcel delivery, video hosting, health, government and money handling websites along with many credit agencies, news publications, mobile providers, shops and petition sites.

Quite shocking, as much of a stuck record that it makes me sound.

Next time in the internet infrastructure series, with the recent rise of downtimes in huge CDNs, how about "how many of my bookmarks are powered by AWS and Cloudflare"?

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I use OpenNIC for DNS, it's cool, independent and custom

Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2025-03-14 18:30:00 UTC | Tags: cool custom dns independent networking opennic

Ever wish you could register domain names for free, with cool TLDs? Well... you can, in a private, democratic community namespace.

So what is it?

It's a set of community-maintained DNS servers, some of which run with DoH, DoT, DNSSEC and claim to not log, etc.

What's so good about that? Doesn't everybody do that? What's the niche, then?

The niche here is a set of custom, OpenNIC-only TLDs you can register and maintain for free, which is kind of neat.

What about TLS, though? How do you get certificates for it? Surely if other DNS providers don't understand

Well, what you can do is that you can use custom certificates. Of course, this means you'll need to do one of two things:

Create and self-sign your own certificate This means that everybody will have to trust you and pass through the yellow screens when visiting your website.
Create and run your own certificate authority on your own computer This means that you, and only you, will not have to face the yellow screens, and it's kind of useful. It still protects against man-in-the-middle attacks, because you'll have to click through otherwise signed certificates.
Import a "special" root certificate from the wiki, then run ACME against their server, specifically. This means you can share the authority between users of the authority, and that you'll have to trust the authority, but otherwise no yellow screens.

Nice. Anything else you can do with it?

There's always volunteering to run a DNS server or providing translations if you're multilingual.

That's pretty cool. How do I get started?

Simply visit their website. You'll find information about what DNS servers to add that are closest to you, and you can decide what kind of domains you wish to register. There are some pretty gnarly ones available.

Ta-ta!

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Behind the Times: Sites still without IPv6 in 2025

Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2025-03-13 23:45:00 UTC | Tags: 2025 amazon baidu behind bilibili canva chatgpt cnn duckduckgo dzen ebay fandom globo google ipv6 linkedin mail.ru meta microsoft naver netflix networking pinterest quora reddit samsung sites still temu tetlegram tiktok times twitch vk weather.com wikipedia without x yahoo zoom

Hi!

As of 2025, a lot of the world's top websites do not work on an IPv6 connection, which is slated to become the default for new internet connections, due to IPv6 exhaustion.

Top sites stolen from Wikipedia:

Website	Works?
Google-owned websites	Yes
Meta-owned websites	Yes
X	Partial (Request succeeds but page complains as Fastly CDN has no IPv6 record)
Wikipedia	Yes
ChatGPT	Yes
Reddit	Yes
Yahoo	No, first redirect has no IPv6 record
Amazon Shopping	No
dzen.ru	No
Baidu	No
Tiktok	No
Netflix	Yes
Microsoft	Sometimes yes (e.g. microsoft.com, bing.com, office.com), sometimes no (e.g. microsoftonline.com, live.com, sharepoint.com)
LinkedIn	Yes
Naver	No
Pinterest	No
Bilibili	No
Twitch	No
VK	No
Mail.ru	Yes
Samsung	No
Fandom	No
Globo	No
Canva	Yes
DuckDuckGo	No
Telegram	Yes
Weather.com	Yes
Quora	No
Temu	No
CNN	Doesn't load well...
Zoom	Yes
Ebay	No

Perplexing, perhaps. So what are people to do?

Interestingly, here are the results for some of the most popular open source/free software and management:

Top sites stolen from my memory, TechRadar and DistroWatch.

Website	Works?
Mozilla	Yes
LibreOffice	Yes
VLC	Yes
GIMP	No
Shotcut	No
Audacity	Yes
FileZilla	Yes
Thunderbird	Yes
KeePass	Yes
KeePassX	Yes
KeePassXC	Yes
Internxt	No
Brave	Yes
Linux kernel	Yes
Mint	No
MX Linux	Yes
EndeavourOS	No
Cachy OS	Yes
Debian	Yes
System76	No
Manjaro	Yes
Ubuntu	Yes
Fedora	Yes
OpenSUSE	Yes
Arch	Yes
FreeBSD	Yes
OpenBSD	Yes
NetBSD	Yes
NixOS	Yes
GitHub	No, only some Pages sites such as this
GitLab	Yes

Sobering, who takes the future of the Internet seriously.

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Issuing modem commands to an unrooted Android device

Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2018-07-31 19:37:00 UTC | Tags: access android connection gsm hayes linux m2msupport minicom mobile modem network networking phone port root screen serial

Did you know that Android devices expose a modem on the USB interface, even when "Tethering" is turned off? It appears like this in dmesg:

[22338.529851] cdc_acm 1-3:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device

You can connect to this as a raw serial console like:

screen /dev/ttyACM0

or:

minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

This will accept GSM modem commands prefixed with AT, and give information about the phone, and presumably allow a dialup-like interface.

Many of the examples on M2MSupport.net will work with the phone, depending on which manufacturer and capability set, presumably. With my Samsung Galaxy XCover 4, I got the GSM capability set.

Try playing around with this, but don't get charged by your provider too much for making calls you never end! Make sure you hang up properly as per the protocol.

For more on standard modem commands, see the Hayes command set article on Wikipedia.

That's all for now!

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Xenon Alpha released!

Permalink | Author: Dan Dart | Published: 2009-12-29 13:20:00.001 UTC | Tags: ajax api apps cloud css desktop fast gui html html5 javascript linux networking operating system os php social sql xenon

An alpha version of the Xenon Desktop has been released. A description of the project follows.

Xenon is a portable web or browser based desktop for netbooks and thin clients, designed to be the easiest desktop ever.

The desktop includes a new GUI stepping away from traditional menus and is optimised for touchscreen and small devices.

The system integrates social networking features and standard desktop features into one software package.

Being browser-based, it is cross platform and cross architecture. It is built on HTML5 and PHP components, and can be run on extremely low-powered machines, allowing for cheap distribution and devices.

The backend can be run online (for users to access their data everywhere), on a personal LAN server, or on a small device, so the system can work offline, or if there are concerns about cloud storage.

An API is available at xenon.kevinghadyani.com/wiki/index.php/Developing_Apps (edit 2021: page not archived), so anyone can start developing apps to distribute in Xenon's upcoming App Store.

The project's homepage is located at https://hackerlanes.com (edit 2021: archived) including the online desktop, ready for instant testing and a download of the alpha image for your server. The actual small footprint OS that will run on netbooks will come later.

We encourage contributions to the project, in the form of code (the languages currently used are (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL), art (eg icons, backgrounds, GUI concepts) or even just ideas.

To send any requests or contributions, or to join the project, please email the head developer at dan.dart@googlemail.com. Thank you!

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