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OVH's cheap dedicated servers, Kimsufi, only provides a single /126 IPv6 address, instead of the recommended /64 block :(.

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I have heard rumours that, although this is what they state, they actually in practice do assign the entire /64 to the machine. Not sure if this is true and I have not tested it myself.

I see it largely as an attempt to do market segmentation and limit the usefulness of Kimsufi to push people towards their other brands. Unfortunate, but...

Well, it does work (just have to allocate the IPs statically) but since you're kinda not supposed to do that, I assume it will either stop working one day, or get my machine voided as a TOS violation or whatnot.

It really is unfortunate. Not having to use a proxy for the sole purpose of sharing the 80 port would be nice...

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