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Hotter take: IPv6 isn't going to happen. Most people's needs are met by NAT for clients and SNI routing for servers. We ran out of IPv4 addresses years ago. If
by apitman 2y ago
Hotter take: IPv6 isn't going to happen. Most people's needs are met by NAT for clients and SNI routing for servers. We ran out of IPv4 addresses years ago. If it was actually a problem it would have happened then. It makes me sad for the p2p internet but it's true.
A response I've seen is that the relatively recent IPv4 price increases will change that. SNI routing solves that too.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoIPv6 is one of the solutions that will allow IPv4 to continue. If you run into something like an address conflict you can often just use IPv6 to avoid the conflict rather than dealing with the conflict.
- zamadatix 2y agoIPv6 has already happened. Maybe "get rid of public IPv4 everywhere" isn't going to happen but mobile carriers already rely heavily on IPv6 NAT64 to avoid multi-layered IPv4 CG-NAT. It's where the majority of IPv6 traffic comes from and another one of the reasons we may not need "traditional" devices to get off IPv4.
- icedchai 2y agoI've been running IPv6 for over 15 years, first with a various tunnels, then native. A couple years ago I was able to get a /44 block and use that for experimentation.