alt Hacker NewsIPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
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You and me both, IPv6.
Good enough beats better.
Is IPv6 going to see it's epitaph instead of it's takeover soon?
should be just about done by 2050 at that rate
Because NAT and VPNs are a permanent temporary fix. Before you get a global flat Internet, you have to make NAT illegal just like we did with VPNs. Good luck with that.
they should have made it backwards compatible. they were forever doomed by not make it a superset of IPv4.
Well if you think IPv6 adoption is a problem, wait until you hear ISPs offering IPv6 are providing a /64 prefix. IPv6 rollout is a mess.
I just want things to work.
I have yet to encounter a situation where I _NEED_ IPv6, or there's a very substantial benefit of using IPv6 over IPv4 beyond just "academic arguments on the internet".
And I work with IP networks all the time, as well as run LAN Parties as a business. You'd think I would have encountered at least ONE reason to give a crap about IPv6 by now.
But nope, not one reason.
IPv4 gets work done. IPv6 is just a topic that we can wax poetic about, but nothing else.
btw it's only been getting seriously deployed since 2010
ipv6's::syntax::is::weird
cuz it sucks
For Google connecting clients it's only half the internet.
Half. The. Internet.
What a failure. /s
what is ipv6, btw?
sudo networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi ; sudo networksetup -setv6off Ethernet
to protect your privacy
IPv6 addresses are ugly and hard to memorize. IPv4 addresses are pretty and easier to memorize. That's about the end of the discussion as to why it's basically a failure.
I used to like the idea of an IPv4 replacement, but I've come around.
A large number of my devices and websites I visit use IPv6. Its success has highlighted the fact that I don't want it. Just today I disabled IPv6 on my router because I suspect it as a vector for tracking.
IPv6 offers nothing of value to the user. It might as well be shelved forever.
IPv6 means no more NAT. Your home computer can have the same kind of network connection to the rest of the internet as the server at the AWS data center.
ISPs do not want this.
That is all you need to know about why you can’t have IPv6.
Aren't all the smartphones IPV6?