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> IPv4 remaining good enough I agree with this, > Low IPv6 adoption has nothing to do with dotted decimal address notation But disagree with this. A LOT of
by dheera 4y ago
> IPv4 remaining good enough
I agree with this,
> Low IPv6 adoption has nothing to do with dotted decimal address notation
But disagree with this.
A LOT of the time some equipment of mine supports IPv6, but I continue to access it by IPv4 because I can remember the damn address. So I continue to use IPv4 a lot of the time, IPv6 kinda just sits there and rots, rarely used because the addresses and notation are unwieldy. I'm also bad at memorizing hex compared to decimal. Many times I can relate an IPv4 address to some important numbers in my life, friends' birthdays, past zipcodes, digits of pi I've memorized, holidays, musical melodies, etc. so they tend to be easier to remember.
- xibo9 4y agoYeah this is why we have DNS. Why memorize huge integers when DNS is available?
- dheera 4y agoWhen is DNS always available? I often update an A record and nobody except the heavens knows when the DNS server caches will update, when my clients will invalidate, often it's more reliable to just punch in the IPv4 off the top of my head when DNS is so unreliable about providing lighting-fast updates. And then there are the DNS-poisoning Wi-Fi hotspots, I connect to some hotspot, go to http://myfoo.com/ http://myfoo.com/, get some stupid hotel login page, I just go "fuck it" and punch in the IPv4 instead and I'm in business.
- IcePic 4y agoYou'd be amazed if you were working with networking in the early 90s before TCP/IP "won" over NetBEUI/AppleTalk/IPX, and the same was said then, those huge weird numbers were unwieldy and nothing an admin should have to remember. Answer still the same, use DNS and stop caring for the large numbers.