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IPv6

I mean, why the hell is IPv4 still a thing??

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9 points

Because ipv6 is yucky

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Yeah I’m anti IPv6 so I’m not going to ever use it personally. Ipv4 is enough for me

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4 points

It may be enough for you, but not for everybody.

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go ahead and use that on your home network, but if you work in IT and deploy it on public networks i’m going to kick you in the nuts

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8 points

Because SecOps still thinks NAT is security, and NetOps is decidedly against carrying around that stupid tradition.

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You can even Nat still if you want too lol

That said have you looked at securing ipv6 networks?It can be a lot of new paridgms that need to be secured.

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bruh you could just use dyndns on ipv6 and call it a day, even more secure than ipv4 with NAT. lmao.

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I hear you on this! Took me a whole day to get my router to delegate IPv6 properly. I’m sure that had it been better adopted, I wouldn’t be having such a hard time.

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2 points

Try to remember a handful of them

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In the world of computers, why would remembering numbers be the stop for new technologies?

Do you remember anyone’s public key? Certificate?

I don’t even remember domain (most) names, just Google them or save them as bookmarks or something.

The reason IPv4 still exists is because ISPs benefit from its scarcity. Big ISPs already paid a lot of money to own IPv4 addresses, if they switched to IPv6 that investnywould be worthless.

Try selling static IPv6 addresses as they do now with IPv4. People would laugh at them and just get a free IPv6 address from an ISP that wants to get new users and doesn’t charge for it.

The longer ISPs delay the adoption of IPv6, the longer they can milk IPv4 scarcity.

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I don’t even remember my old ICQ UIN. People usually do that.

So yes, bring in IPv6.

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Which ISPs offer IPv6 for free?
Asking for a friend.

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On the Internet, no. On my home LAN? Absolutely. I disabled all IPv6 at home.

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Shortening rules actually make IPv6 addresses easier to remember than IPv4. Just don’t use auto configuration.

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For what?

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damn if only we had a service that like, obfuscated and abstracted these hard to remember IPs that aren’t very user friendly, and turned them into something more usable. That would be cool i think. Someone should make that.

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Some kind of name system surely.

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::1

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That’s just one loopback address.

I could list 2^24 IPv4 loopback addresses.

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