GoonHost - Implementing IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP
Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP
GoonHost presents a groundbreaking open-source implementation of the IPv8 Internet-Draft, built from scratch across the Linux kernel, Musl libc, iproute2, FRRouting, and a Go-based Zone Server. This ambitious project demonstrates a fully functional IPv8 stack in a 10-node multi-AS testbed, supporting new address formats, BGP8 peering, and integrated services like DHCP8 and DNS8. While the protocol shows promise in lab environments, the team candidly documents real-world challenges, including MTU issues, hardware limitations, and economic impacts on RIRs and Tier-1 providers. Explore the repositories and whitepaper to dive into the technical details and join the discussion.
We decided to actually build the entire specification from scratch and test what happens when you deploy it across a distributed multi-AS network.
- kstrauser
I appreciate this. IPv8 is a terrible, terrible idea, and it’s good to see someone actually built it out to prove the depths of its terribleness. Well done.
- Magicrafter13
It's 2026 and we're turning troll/fake spec submissions into actual usable technology. What a time to be alive.
There's only one thing in the article I disagree with:
> RIRs (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC) Go Financially Bankrupt
This is purely an argument of pragmatism, rather than having any technical merit. If a system works, and meaningfully improves over another system, I couldn't care less that people aren't able to effectively monetize it.
- exabrial
The "no flag day" is how ipv6 should have been engineered.
- ahmetozer
Thanks for testing,
in year 2026, still IPv6 is not fully well utilized homes, corporates especially it is worse at clouds (AWS, GCP) if you not limit north to south, they are not good for east-to-west compared to telco providers.
For example, GCP uses IP forwarding for IPv6 real IP address is not allocated at machine. At some of the components which is EKS is not support every case at IPv6.
So IPv8 can be available around year 2300 I guess :) (i have not inspected v8 RFC yet)
- altairprime
Thanks for going through the work of testing this. Better to have the actual results for a joke than to joke about theories :)