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Hmm, I use IPv4 mostly because nobody in their right mind can remember a IPv6 address…
by Aeolun 3y ago
Hmm, I use IPv4 mostly because nobody in their right mind can remember a IPv6 address…
- post-it 3y agoWho's out there remembering IPv4 addresses?
- brickteacup 3y agoIf only there were some sort of a system for translating human readable names to network addresses...
- waithuh 3y agodamn, imagine if the buddies of the company that owns all of these IPs operated that system. The entire internet would be in their control. Wild dream.
- gaudystead 3y ago/me slowly raises hand
- capableweb 3y agoPlenty of people own ipv4 addresses (I mean, all of them are owned, but most by companies) and have been using the same addresses for a very long time, you start to remember some of them by heart after that :)
- ricardo81 3y agoNot I. Any commonly accessed IP tends to be named in my SSH config.
- lucb1e 3y agoHave you tried? I knew my v6 block (and static addresses within that, which is like two: router and server) back when I used v6 ten years ago, same as I know my v4 address, without really actively learning either For sure this is a self-hoster thing, where you have pets not cattle, but so is memorizing your v4 address(es)
- chungy 3y agoI must be in my wrong mind then. :) Just because it's a 128-bit number doesn't mean it should be difficult to remember, the standard notation goes a long way toward that. 2001:db8::cafe:f00d and fc00:bad:beef::1 aren't what I'd call the epitome of "can't remember" Mind that real-world global addresses often have four groups of almost-random at the beginning, but it's usually not terrible to commit to memory.
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoUse DNS?
- skrause 3y agoIs is really so hard to remember the addresses fd::1, fd::2 etc. for your local network?
- ghosty141 3y agoThere is nothing wrong with ipv4 in the LAN, for public things in the internet DNS is and should be used anyways making ipv6 there a non issue.
- sgjohnson 3y ago> There is nothing wrong with ipv4 in the LAN Asides from potential address conflicts, should your work VPN space overlap with your LAN subnet, for example.
- pantalaimon 3y ago2600:: is pretty handy