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Celebrate 100 years since complete ipv6 adoption.
by zaik 1y ago
Celebrate 100 years since complete ipv6 adoption.
- IgorPartola 1y agoI think you are being too optimistic. Interplanetary Grade NAT works just fine and doesn’t have the complexity of using colons instead of periods in its addresses.
- klabb3 1y agoThe year is 292277026596. The IP TTL field of max 255 has been ignored for ages and would no longer be sufficient to ping even localhost. This has resulted in ghost packets stuck in circular routing loops, whose original source and destination have long been forgotten. It's estimated these ghost packets consume 25-30% of the energy from the Dyson sphere.
- pyinstallwoes 1y agoThat’s only 25-30% of the energy environmental disaster in sector 137 resulting from the Bitcoin cluster inevitably forming a black hole from the plank scale space-filling compute problem.
- bestouff 1y agoNot since the world opted for statistical TTL decrement : start at 255 and decrement by one if Rand(1024) == 0. Voilà, no more zombie packets, TCP retransmit takes care of the rest.
- MisterTea 1y agoSounds like a great sci-fi plot - hunting for treasure/information by scanning ancient forgotten packets still in-flight on a neglected automated galactic network.
- rootbear 1y agoVernor Vinge could absolutely have included that in some of his stories.
- db48x 1y agoCharles Stross, Neptune’s Brood.
- kstrauser 1y ago“We tapped into the Andromeda Delay Line.”
- saalweachter 1y agoB..E....S..U..R..E....T..O....D..R..I..N..K....Y..O..U..R....O..V..A..L..T..I..N..E....
- JdeBP 1y agoI have a vague memory that Sean Williams's Astropolis series touches upon this at one point. Although it has been a while and I might be mis-remembering.
- tengwar2 1y agoThere was an sf short story based on someone implementing a worm (as in Morris Worm) which deleted all data on a planet. They fix it by flying FTL and intercepting some critical information being send at radio speed. I think it was said to be the first description of malware, and the origin of the term "worm" in this context.
- sidewndr46 1y agoThe ever increasing implementation complexity of IPv4 resulted in exactly one implementation that worked replacing all spiritual scripture and becoming known as the one true implementation. Due to a random bitflip going unnoticed the IPv4-truth accidentally became Turing complete several millenia ago. With the ever increasing flows of ghost packets, IPv4-truth processing power has rapidly grown and will soon achieve AGI. Its first priority is to implement 128-bit time as a standard in all programming languages to avoid the impending apocalypse.
- troupo 1y agoOh, this is a good evolution of the classic bash.org joke https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273 https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273 --- start quote --- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. --- end quote ---
- saalweachter 1y agoThe awkward thing is how the US still has 1.5 billion IPv4s, while the 6000 other inhabited clusters are sharing the 10k addresses originally allocated to Tuvalu before it sank into the sea.
- diegocg 1y agoYou can laugh but Google stats show nearly 50% of their global traffic being ipv6 (US is higher, about 56%), Facebook is above 40%.
- msk-lywenn 1y agoDo they accept smtp over ipv6 now?
- betaby 1y agoMX has IPv6: ~$ host gmail.com gmail.com has address 142.250.69.69 gmail.com has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4020:801::2005 gmail.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. ~$ host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has address 142.250.31.26 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4004:c21::1a
- stackskipton 1y agoYes. However SMTP these days is almost all just servers exchanging mail, IPv6 support is much less priority.
- 1718627440 1y agoHow does your MUA sends the message to the server? That's also SMTP.
- rwmj 1y agoThey do, but I had to change my mail routing to use IPv4 to gmail because if I connect over IPv6 everything gets categorised as spam.
- londons_explore 1y agoAs soon as we get to about 70%, I reckon some games and apps will stop supporting ipv4 on the basis that nat traversal is a pain and dual stack networking is a pain. If you spend 2 days vibe coding some chat app and then you have to spend 2 further days debugging why file sharing doesn't work for ipv4 users behind nat, you might just say it isn't supported for people whose ISP's use 'older technology'. After that, I reckon the transition will speed up a lot.
- throw0101d 1y ago> Celebrate 100 years since complete ipv6 adoption. Obligatory XKCD: * https://xkcd.com/865/ https://xkcd.com/865/