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My memory of IPv6 is getting waves of support tickets from people who took their (already questionable) practice of blocking ICMP on IPv4, blocked ICMPv6, and then got confused when IPv6 stopped working.


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reincarnate0x1401/02/2026

The legacy of the Ping of Death and redirect abuse still looms over people that may not have been born yet :)