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Why does no one talk about IPv6 this day and age?
by zekica 6y ago
Why does no one talk about IPv6 this day and age?
- ggm 6y agoCame here to say this. ULA would have been stacks better than this.
- CameronNemo 6y agoMaybe they find it too cumbersome to memorize and type an ipv6 address. Or grew up and cut their teeth on v4.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoBenefits don't yet outweigh the cost for many, and years of familiarity/habit mean that it would need some really compelling advantages to get used.
- fulafel 6y agoWith IPv6 there's not enough tinkering with service meshes, port forwardings, workarounds for private ip address conflicts and VPCs to write articles about.
- otterley 6y agoIPv6 doesn't solve the difficulties of container networking. Containers have private network namespaces, which means that a container can't communicate with other hosts without (1) a dedicated interface or (2) a bridge (basically a software switch) for host-to-container communication. These problems are Layer 2 problems, while IPv4 and IPv6 are at layer 3.