Actually the IPv6 address allows you to put a lot of useful detail into your address scheme. If this is supposed to be a complaint from a network admin he simpl

Actually the IPv6 address allows you to put a lot of useful detail into your address scheme. If this is supposed to be a complaint from a network admin he simply doesn't know how to plan an IPv6 deployment properly. Edit: he hasn't even mentioned zone IDs represented by a % which would make him even more angry if he had to figure them out tl;dr use mdns. You should never have to type an IP. Yes the mdns software sucks and has a huge attack surface because it's bloated.