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The main thing I don't like is type-ability. Even now I type in 192.168.1.14 to connect to my mates computer to play satisfactory. No way in heck am I trying in
by Incipient 6mo ago
The main thing I don't like is type-ability. Even now I type in 192.168.1.14 to connect to my mates computer to play satisfactory. No way in heck am I trying in an ip6!
- patmorgan23 6mo agoHmmmm maybe someone should come up with a SYSTEM to organize NAMES for ips, maybe using hierarchical DOMAINs.... Oh wait.
- gertop 6mo agoYour bad attempt at humor makes it quite clear that you've never dealt with network engineering or administrating to any extent. Admitting that ipv6 has some downsides, however minor they may seem to you, won't hurt your quest to render ipv4 obsolete. In fact being less insufferable is how you win people to your causes, not by laughing at their genuine albeit minor issues.
- fasterik 6mo agoThey were making a legitimate point a humorous way. The problem of manually typing in IP addresses has been solved by DNS for over 50 years.
- ryandrake 6mo agoI haven't had to type an IP address to access something on my home network for at least a decade, except for (occasionally) my xxx.1 router.
- matthews3 6mo agoWe could abbreviate that to SND!
- bpavuk 6mo agohow about just having zeroconf on and using .local domains?
- vel0city 6mo agoWhy not just type in "mates-pc" and have functional mDNS and not have to memorize a bunch of numbers? Why not just expect your OS's DNS setup to actually just work?
- IshKebab 6mo agoBecause mDNS usually doesn't work and just expecting it to work doesn't change that?
- vel0city 6mo ago> Why not just expect your OS's DNS setup to actually just work? Maybe use an OS or DNS stack that isn't terrible? Incredible asking for a not-broken DNS and IP stack is just too far out there when it seems most of the closed source OS platforms seem to manage just fine. Or let me guess, you've specifically configured it to not "leak" such useful information?
- guntars 6mo agoSkill issue. Works fine for me in a mixed Linux/Apple environment.
- IshKebab 6mo agoI didn't write any mDNS software. Blame those guys.
- guntars 6mo agoWell I mean “those guys” did a good job and the network administrator might need to do some debugging.
- zadikian 6mo agoI never have to debug why my dhcp server isn't handing out ipv4 addresses or deal with conflicts, but if I did, it'd break mdns too. mdns is an extra moving part to deal with.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoNo way in heck are you typing fd00::d or similar? Why not?
- password4321 6mo agoI recently learned I can skip middle .0's in IPv4, no more 192.168's for me it's 10[.0.0]'s going forward.
- dpc_01234 6mo agoI wish I had your problems. :D . Problems that are really only a mild inconvenience, and can be solved with a single line in hosts file. My biggest and possibly only problem preventing me from going IPV6-only is that Github doesn't support it, and there's just too much darn software I need to needs Github. (Yes, I know NAT64 exist - it's just extra complexity for something that is not even my problem in the first place).