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title: via-ipv6.com: enabling IPv4 sites for IPv6 only networks
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pub_date: 2019-10-17
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author: Nico Schottelius
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twitter_handle: NicoSchottelius
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_hidden: no
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_discoverable: yes
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abstract:
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We launched via-ipv6.com to enable legacy (IPv4) sites in IPv6 only networks
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body:
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Have you ever been in an IPv6 only network and wanted to reach IPv4
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sites without NAT64?
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Inspired by talks at [RIPE79](https://ripe79.ripe.net), I decided to
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give it a try, whether we can easily expose some IPv4 only sites with
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a proxy to the IPv6 Internet.
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Turns out, using a bit of nginx magic and an
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[IPv6 only VM](https://ipv6onlyhosting.com/) with NAT64 this is
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actually not too hard.
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## How it works
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First of all, all sites are enabled on a site-by-site basis, so this
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is not a generic IPv6-to-IPv4 proxy.
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For every "site", be it Hackernews, Twitter or Reddit, I created a
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subdomain below **via-ipv6.com** like:
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* [reddit.via-ipv6.com](https://reddit.via-ipv6.com)
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* [twitter.via-ipv6.com](https://twitter.via-ipv6.com)
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* [hackernews.via-ipv6.com](https://hackernews.via-ipv6.com)
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Each of the sites have their own SSL certificate, not the one used by
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the actual site. The reason for this is that I needed the client to
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access the proxy instead of failing to access the site (like
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reddit.com) by not finding an AAAA entry.
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The disadvantage of this is that I have to decrypt and re-encrypt the
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traffic. So while I am not interested in your data, I advise to use
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this service knowing that the TLS connection is decrypted and
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reencrypted on the path.
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## List of sites
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You find the current list of sites on
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[via-ipv6.com](https://via-ipv6.com). If you would like to have
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another site added, just ping me on [IPv6.chat](https://IPv6.chat).
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