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Imho IPV6 failed because of a failure to make DNS usable to non-specialists. If every device on every network could be assigned a domain name, then we'd never
by Pxtl 8y ago
Imho IPV6 failed because of a failure to make DNS usable to non-specialists.
If every device on every network could be assigned a domain name, then we'd never have to know what underlying addressing scheme exists.
My ISP has a name. I have an account with them. Every device on my network has a name.
There's no good reason I don't have
Device.accountName.pub.ispName.tld
Bound to the phone I'm writing this on right now.
But because that doesn't exist, users are still used to screwing with MAC and IP addresses just to set up port forwarding and all that other nonsense.
And so we have to care about IP addresses. And so we're stuck on ipv4.
- zamadatix 8y ago99% of users couldn't tell you what an IP address or port is let alone manually configure MACs and IPs into their router so I don't think that has anything to do with adoption of v6. To the vast majority of users they type a name in the URL bar and that's their full interaction with what they'd think of as "internet addresses". Those administering the systems users connect to have always handled DNS just fine so I don't see why they wouldn't be able to know that the address got a bit longer.
- iagovar 8y agov6 adresses are hard to memorize tho
- Dagger2 8y agoNot really? I don't think you can reasonably argue that: 2001:db8:4242:1::2 is much harder to remember than: 203.0.113.42+192.168.1.2 In fact it's substantially fewer characters. Okay, obviously you can pick v6 addresses such that they're long and hard to memorize, but I'd argue that if you do that and also refuse to use DNS for them then you've lost your right to complain about how long and hard to memorize they are.