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I really wish people would start switching to v6. I'm sick and tired of having to do UDP hole punching whenever I want two user nodes to talk to each other. I m

I really wish people would start switching to v6. I'm sick and tired of having to do UDP hole punching whenever I want two user nodes to talk to each other. I miss TCP, but I can't push it through a NAT unless I have sufficient privileges to set the ttl's on the packets, which only root can do.

wmf 18y ago
You'll have to hang on a little longer. Serious IPv6 deployment isn't going to begin until after IPv4 runout.
- olefoo 18y ago
  That really depends on where you are. Asia is migrating more quickly than the US because they have different needs. But yeah, for the US it probably won't be a big factor until 2012; if then. I mean other than fulltime networking geeks it's going to be just another address format hidden below the DNS. If you work for an ISP, or design networking equipment or are building widely deployed sensor networks or something of that nature, then you care about it now. But for the average developer of web-based applications it's not going to be particularly noteworthy until you discover bugs arising from erroneous assumptions about the network.
  - wlievens 17y ago
    > bugs arising from erroneous assumptions about the network. This made me recall something from over a decade ago. In the PC game Heroes of Might and Magic 2, when you wanted to connect to a LAN server, the input box for the IP's was too small. You couldn't type an IP of the format "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" because the box was one character short. My brother and I had to assign IP's manually to all the computers in the house.