IPv6 judged by an experienced professional

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• TimboJones Member

  March 2025

  @raindog308 said:

  • I can memorize and say IPv4 addresses out loud quite easily, and often do. IPv6 addresses are just too long to do that. (Maybe 64-bit ones would be, too).

  The idea is you don't, you use hostnames. There's a huge chunk of the population who have never seen or read an IP address their entire lives. Do you use simple passwords, too? No, and you use them far, far more than IPs.

  • IPSec really should have been built in, though I suppose that's debatable.
  • It seems to be designed to be NAT-hostile, but NAT has a number of benefits.

  I don't know what that even means. NAT is a workaround, not a feature. That's just adding a second firewall and using up resources unnecessarily.

  • Not the least of which is privacy. IPv6 seems to be designed to give every device a globally trackable number. Giving everyone a /64 that randomizes is a weird workaround. I guess it's a workaround that works, but...

  I also don't understand this. My ISP has given me the same IPv4 address for a decade or more. Through IPv6 privacy extensions, my IPV6 changes all the time for every device. The accuracy of tracking my IPv4 devices will be much higher than IPV6. I also imagine geoip location will be closer with IPv4 than IPv6, but I really have no idea.

  I'm sure a networking pro could come up with more.

  As I said, there are all kinds of bad computer protocols. FTP, for example. POP3. WEP. Telnet. And whatever Windows does. At this point (actually quite some time ago), I think the IPv6 ship has sailed.

  Engineers had to think of potential technologies like VOIP, where everyone could have their own phone number. If it didn't cut into Telecom profits, we could have all had voip phones 30 years ago.

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