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If you want to increase adoption of a technology then the onus is on you to convince everyone else. I think being dismissive of the human element is not going t

• WorldMaker 2y ago
  First of all, I don't have direct skin in this game, it's not my job to convince people to use more IPv6. (I think it's a good idea, but I'm not here to convince anyone.) Second of all, I wasn't being dismissive at all, I listed a number of good workarounds to enhance the human element, because yes human memory is (very) fallible. I'm also in the category that I've never been able to keep IPv4 addresses in my working memory (I can have a bit of dyscalculia, myself, and sometimes know all the individual digits but be entirely unable to retain their order among each other). I've personally always needed these workarounds, and was just providing a list of options for those new to this need. (Welcome to the club.) I also could have mentioned mDNS as a distinct subclass of DNS. That's most of what I use in IPv6 LAN stuff, personally, but I don't have a lot of subnets to worry about. Also I could have mentioned tricks like writing down a subnet prefix somewhere such as a .env script and using assigned addresses full of zeroes in that prefix like $PREFIX::1, $PREFIX::16, $PREFIX::cafe, or also, if you really want, and just miss dotted quads that much: $PREFIX::136.324.154.123 (that's been a supported address format for a few years now as long as it is on the right side of a :: shortcut).