alt Hacker NewsTbh it’s is a huge PITA with little practical benefit. IPv6 is the Perl 6 of networking.
Many of the big benefits are things that don’t deliver anything that folks are lacking. You also need to understand how you fit in the overall universe more.
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eulenteufel • last Friday at 9:09 PM
What about the benefit of there being enough addresses?
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bigstrat2003 • last Saturday at 12:35 AM
That's a pretty bold claim. IMO IPv6 is not hard at all, and delivers significant benefit when dealing with anything outside your local network.
avhception • last Friday at 9:06 PM
I absolutely love the things that IPv6 delivers and employ it on purpose.
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djha-skin • last Saturday at 5:16 AM
This is so right.
No One believes us on hacker News. It feels very gaslighty. I have never talked to an IT engineer in person that thought IP version 6 in the data center or in the corporate network was a good idea.
An example for a small environment: I've got the whole homelab on unique ipv6 range. Whatever VPN connection happens to another network, I'll never have range collisions or need any fancy rewriting. Also the DNS will point at a specific address on my network, never at a random 192.168.x.x in a network I happen to be connected to.