alt Hacker News> - It's hard to remember IPv6 addresses. The prospect of reconfiguring all my router and firewall rules looks rather painful.
fd00::1 is pretty easy to remember. It's your network, give yourself a sane and short prefix.
> - It's hard to remember IPv6 addresses. The prospect of reconfiguring all my router and firewall rules looks rather painful.
fd00::1 is pretty easy to remember. It's your network, give yourself a sane and short prefix.
That's a gripe I have with IPv6. There are too damn many special networks and addresses!
With IPv4 I can easily remember 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16, but I can't remember the other one off the top of my head. (172.16.0.0/12 I think?). Multicast is 224.x.x.x/x IIRC, but definitely need to look that one up when I need it.
IPv6 has SO many special networks. Network. Public. Multicast. Link local. (Which isn't like an IPv4 link local, but apparently it can actually be on the LAN? IDK - I was just learning about it earlier today.) And every interface seems to have about 5 different addresses of each type.