Homelab Services Unreachable Over IPv6 Behind CGNAT
A homelab user behind CGNAT cannot reach a Docker and reverse-proxy service from outside their network over IPv6. Causes such as Docker's IPv4-default networking, router firewall or ISP blocking are hard to isolate.
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