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The main issue with IPv6 adoption is people who didn't learn IPv4 before NAT, and want to use the hammer (IPv4 NAT) for everything.
by zekica 3y ago
The main issue with IPv6 adoption is people who didn't learn IPv4 before NAT, and want to use the hammer (IPv4 NAT) for everything.
- pif 3y agoA hammer working fine today, that you own, is better than a machine tool tomorrow, that you'll have to pay.
- fknorangesite 3y agoI wish we had an idiom for this. Maybe something bird-related.
- talideon 3y agoAlso, developers who don't know how to get their daemons to listen on multiple interfaces at once.
- cesarb 3y agoThat's not necessary; listening on the wildcard IPv6 address without the "IPv6 only" flag enabled on the socket is enough. A IPv4 connection arriving at it is mapped to a special IPv6 address, so the code doesn't have to care about IPv4. Unless you were using Windows, where IIRC the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks were separate, and a single socket couldn't be used to listen to both at the same time. (This might already have been fixed in more recent Windows releases.)