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    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Nick Boel on Saturday, August 09, 2025 10:57:31
    Hello Nick,

    On Thursday August 07 2025 17:33, you wrote to me:

    I doubt that the use of those very old routers that do not have a
    firewall and have it reject all unsilliced income is more that a
    very few exceptions. IIRC they are over two decades old.

    I rocked an Asus AC68U up until only a few years ago. I'm fairly
    certain with the default firmware on that router you could enable
    IPv6, but you couldn't configure anything to do with it. It may have
    even warned you that enabling it would open it completely to the
    public. Of course, when I originally realized that I changed firmware, until it ran it's course and I eventually upgraded to an AX88U Pro.

    Bottom line: That router without a firewall is no longer is use.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: http://www.vlist.org (2:280/5555)
  • From Nick Boel@1:154/700 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sunday, August 10, 2025 10:17:05
    Hey Michiel!

    On Sat, Aug 09 2025 03:57:31 -0500, you wrote:

    I rocked an Asus AC68U up until only a few years ago. I'm fairly
    certain with the default firmware on that router you could enable
    IPv6, but you couldn't configure anything to do with it. It may have
    even warned you that enabling it would open it completely to the
    public. Of course, when I originally realized that I changed firmware,
    until it ran it's course and I eventually upgraded to an AX88U Pro.

    Bottom line: That router without a firewall is no longer is use.

    Correct, in my case. But how many others out there might still be using a router like that. If they aren't broken (in their eyes), many don't bother upgrading until they absolutely have to.

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
    --- SBBSecho 3.29-Linux
    * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (1:154/700)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555.1 to Nick Boel on Sunday, August 10, 2025 17:46:16
    Hello Nick,

    On Sunday August 10 2025 10:17, you wrote to me:

    Bottom line: That router without a firewall is no longer is use.

    Correct, in my case. But how many others out there might still be
    using a router like that. If they aren't broken (in their eyes), many don't bother upgrading until they absolutely have to.

    We don't know how many are still in use, we can only guess and my guess is: "very few". As there is nothing I can do about it, I am not willing to make it my problem. If somenone thinks he/she is smart enough to run his or her own router but is stupid enough to not update two decades old stuff, it is their problem. I can fight ignorance, not stupidity.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20130111
    * Origin: Michiel's laptop (2:280/5555.1)
  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/6.600 to Michiel van der Vlist on Friday, August 15, 2025 21:14:40
    Hi Michiel.

    05 Aug 25 18:20, you wrote to Dmitry Protasoff:

    I have 3 in my list of IPv6 nodes.

    10 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
    61 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov Native KCT/he.net f INO4
    71 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4

    Who is number 4?

    There is a strong candidate in Sweden...

    ===
    Parsing nodelist file /bbs/nodelist/NODELIST.NDL
    Nodelist for Friday, August 15, 2025 -- Day number 227 parsed, 928 IP-nodes processed (0.022 sec)
    Calling '2:20/0'. Call time: '0000-2400' UTC.
    Now is: 1811 UTC.
    eljaco.se, 24555
    Calling 2:20/0 (2001:9b1:10d:77::52b:24555)
    OPT CRAM-MD5-c4da1bbbea11fcde74fa757076fd51ee
    SYS Felten's Sharp System
    ZYZ Bj�rn Felten
    LOC S�ve, Sweden
    NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
    TIME Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:11:11 +0200
    VER binkd/1.1a-65/Win32 binkp/1.1
    address: 2:203/0@fidonet
    address: 2:20/0@fidonet
    address: 2:2/2@fidonet
    address: 2:203/2@fidonet
    OPT EXTCMD
    2001:9b1:10d:77::52b - Ok.
    Session with 2:20/0 done.
    Calling 2:20/0 (94.254.14.141:24555)
    error (Connection timed out)
    ===

    'Tommi

    ---
    * Origin: FPoint (2:221/6.600)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Tommi Koivula on Saturday, August 16, 2025 16:43:54
    Hello Tommi,

    On Friday August 15 2025 21:14, you wrote to me:

    I have 3 in my list of IPv6 nodes.

    10 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
    61 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov Native KCT/he.net f INO4
    71 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4

    Who is number 4?

    There is a strong candidate in Sweden...

    [..]

    address: 2:203/0@fidonet
    address: 2:20/0@fidonet
    address: 2:2/2@fidonet
    address: 2:203/2@fidonet
    OPT EXTCMD
    2001:9b1:10d:77::52b - Ok.
    Session with 2:20/0 done.
    Calling 2:20/0 (94.254.14.141:24555)
    error (Connection timed out)

    Probably a temporary glitch. I connect without problems. Ipv4 and IPv6.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: http://www.vlist.org (2:280/5555)