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> NAT / CGNAT has been doing the heavy lifting extending the life of the Internet; ipv6 has done jack shit. If v6 was useful and actually averted v4 exhausted w
by baby_souffle 4mo ago
> NAT / CGNAT has been doing the heavy lifting extending the life of the Internet; ipv6 has done jack shit. If v6 was useful and actually averted v4 exhausted we'd all be accessing v6 sites/addresses at this point.
This is factually difficult to support.
(Sent from my iPad which doesn’t have an ipv4 address… to hacker news which has an ipv6 address)
- mahboi 4mo agoYou've put yourself in a position where you can't access a lot of websites, including things like GitHub. That might be fine for you personally but isn't what most people do.
- baby_souffle 4mo ago> but isn't what most people do. Most people run dual stack and as $favoriteHost gets AAAA, their traffic moves over. My broader point was that your use of overstatement and a false dichotomy isn't _helping_ us get to a world where IPv6 is dominant.
- mahboi 4mo agoThat's using v4 like the parent comment said. But anyway I don't want ipv6 to be dominant, I want them to scrap it and do something easier.
- commandersaki 4mo ago20 years too late.