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You might be surprised. For reasons I can't begin to fathom, a coffee shop near me used to have its wifi router set up to only permit connections to external si
by smacktoward 7y ago
You might be surprised. For reasons I can't begin to fathom, a coffee shop near me used to have its wifi router set up to only permit connections to external sites over IPv6. I was legitimately surprised at how many sites I couldn't access from there, including sites from Fortune 50 companies and big tech firms, who you'd expect to be among those who'd be on top of this sort of thing.
(Including, ahem, HN.)
- WorldMaker 7y agoEnterprise has a lot less pressure to switch, because they have existing capital investments into, for instance, large, expensive IPv4-only firewalls that aren't currently "broken", and large private IPv4 subnets already walled off with enough IP addresses for their device/asset catalogs. It maybe shouldn't be a surprise that IPv6 has seen much faster consumer adoption comparatively, as consumer ISPs face much less steady/predictable device growth and sometimes much more complex routing scenarios (cell towers have much more complicated internet traffic routing needs than wired ethernet in an office park somewhere).
- dang 7y agoIt's on our list. Hoping to get there soon.