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I know it's not viable, but yet I've always felt IPv6 would have been a nice opportunity to extinguish port numbers. Just give each service its own IP from the
by magicalhippo 2y ago
I know it's not viable, but yet I've always felt IPv6 would have been a nice opportunity to extinguish port numbers. Just give each service its own IP from the /64 the host was allocated.
Then you could have one DNS entry per service. That would have been perfect for residential IPv6 with dynamic prefixes, which require dynamic DNS anyway.
- vel0city 2y agoI've done it on some personal projects recently, what makes it non-viable?
- magicalhippo 2y agoI meant actually getting rid of ports, so the recipient wouldn't need to bother. But I guess one could always just bake it into the DNS record, so perhaps not a big issue in practice.
- vel0city 2y agoAh I get what you mean now. For the most part I just don't care about similar things running on the same port, because I've got many thousands of addresses I could just choose to listen to. I can have tons of different things listening on :80 or :443 or whatever on IPv6.