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eulenteufellast Friday at 9:09 PM6 repliesview on HN

What about the benefit of there being enough addresses?


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jpdblast Friday at 10:01 PM

That particular benefit has no value if you still need to support v4.

It's almost a self-inflicted tragedy of the commons or reverse network-effect.

Adopting IPv6 doesn't alleviate the pain of IPv4 exhaustion if you still need to support dual-stack.

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the_mitsuhikolast Friday at 9:23 PM

The widespread deployment of NAT and VPNs has counter acted the market forces that were assumed to make IPv6 appealing.

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cortesoftlast Friday at 11:15 PM

That is a collective problem, though, not an individual one. I have always been able to get enough v4 addresses for all my needs.

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Spooky23last Friday at 10:06 PM

There’s zero benefit to you because the carrier is NATing you for other purposes.

They get better network management.

_mooflast Saturday at 2:55 AM

Enough addresses for what? Nobody needs or even wants all of their devices to have globally routable addresses.

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djha-skinlast Saturday at 5:16 AM

Everyone who says this is obviously a web developer.