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Awesome, nice to see it finally being used in anger.
Perhaps it won't be too long before static IPs are free from ISPs
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You want not just a static IP but 65534 of them, so you can put a real IPv6 IP on everything in your house. Plus you could need pick the end your address you too could have f00d, do6, face, dead, boob, booc or beef at the end.
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This test is about promoting the soon-to-be-required transition to IPv6, not
There's some irony
Is a bit of the article missing? I'm confused as to why they could't just add another few load of numbers onto what they have now, so instead of 1.1.1.1 have 1.1.1.1.1.1.1 that'd add a fair few more addresses.
Servers would have used IPv6 years ago if ISPs adopted it or at least had a roadmap to adoption instead of depleting the v4 pool to absolute exhaustion and NATing around the problem.
Originally Posted by Agent
Because IPv4 is 32bits in length. To add another n bytes you need a new standard, new equipment or at least patched firmwares for existing equipment, etc. v6 also adds a number of security features and modern niceties which weren't part of the v4 specifications since it was designed before the internet which would be far too problematic to retro-engineer into existing IPv4 infrastructure.
It's best to just have a fresh start with all these considerations as part of the design. We're in the transition mess we're in now because we've abused the crap out of IPv4 for decades with NAT and other such patchwork brainfarts.
Having done some IPv6 testing for my company I can say its very nice once you get use to it. Having a switch being able to autoconfigure a device to have an address without DHCP is very nice. It will take some getting use to though.
I'm waiting for someone to start making 'Theres no place like ::1' t-shirts myself!
Already done.
Damn. Hoped I could make my fortune with that one day.
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