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> Hetzner lists 2a01:4f8:c012:175e::/64 as the IPv6 for my VPS

Yup, that's the address prefix, 64 bit long as indicated by the /64. Your VPS can therefore be configured with 2^(128-64)=2^64 IP addresses, as long as they start with that prefix.

The actual IP is chosen by your VPS itself, so I guess it has assigned itself prefix::1. You can see that address with `ip -6 a`. And add new ones if you want: `ip -6 address add 2a01:4f8:c012:175e::2 dev yournetworkcard0`. You can technically add one IP address per service and bypass the reverse proxy by having the services listen on their dedicated IPs. That makes it easy to migrate services to another host (change the AAAA record).



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