benjojo12

Just because something is/was widely deployed does not mean it was good

iodine automatically detects this and switches to boring IP encapsulation if this is the case

Petrobras?

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH on my phone it seems?

As with many things, "It's complicated" but effectively, yes

Such system firmware is generally provided by AMI / Insyde / Phoenix and similar.

There are a few vendors who decide to go their own way (notably google using a fork of Coreboot for their chromebooks), but it's generally list of vendors that you can count on a single hand.

If it means anything I'm pretty sure AMI provides A/B updates on most products i've used with their stuff.

As someone on the fighting end of scrapers, this is absolutely not true. If anything I should bais towards v6 as the traffic is on par better than v4

In a cloud provider situation there is no pure software solution to this, the hypervisor can always dump your memory pages / register states

I mean yes, but you could also just place the entire computer out there as well

Because SCION is mostly said as a joke in the more serious carrier world.

SCION is practically speaking proprietary, and has 1 and maybe a half implementations. I have a laundry list of real problems with SCION but SCION feels like one of those entities that would get quite legal-ey if discussed publicly.

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For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer

I can't speak for the OPs case, but it's worth keeping in mind that not all languages that people are coming from have capital letters as a concept.

I actually didn't notice the lack of caps until I read this comment

About 58% of all of the email my company sends out of it's outbound relays is to IPv6 MXs. I've never really had to deal with discoverability issues related to v6

It is surprisingly common to find routers with " export firmware " installed out of the box, that do not have ssh support to avoid the interactions with US Cryptographic export licencing complications