On Sunday, 16 October 2022 22:55:53 AEDT Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote:
> On 16/10/22 22:40, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> > Anyway I've moved it to the new system and given it a basic test.  It
> > seems to work OK and the Wordpress login is very quick.  If this message
> > goes through then I'll consider it a success.
> 
> Thanks Russell, your maintenance work is much appreciated!

When I first setup the new server (the OS running on the hardware) I had a 
problem of IPv6 dropping out after a while which might be similar to the 
problem you mentioned in the past Andrew.  It turned out that I hadn't copied 
the sysctl.conf entries to the new server with the following in particular.  
IPv4 forwarding isn't needed as the Hetzner routers send packets directly to 
the MAC of the VM based on ARP.  But IPv6 does things differently.

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1

It seems that when a VM boots up it somehow tells the Hetzner routers where to 
send IPv6 packets for it, and then sometime later the routers forget that and 
use a static route for the /64 which sends it to the OS on the hardware.  If 
IPv6 forwarding is disabled the hardware OS doesn't forward them to the VM.  
If IPv6 forwarding is enabled they get forwarded.

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