Remember guys, using GIFs of Racoon’s in a discussion is ok, as long as you keep them below 1mb.
Love me some IPv6. With mDNS and link local addresses, can get two hosts talking either directly connected or with just an unmanaged switch.
Now if only my ISP (Quantum Fiber/Century Link/AT&T) would offer native IPv6.
I’ll admit that I still use v4, but only because I didn’t have a compelling reason to switch. That said, this feels like the kinda reaction I would have had were I in his shoes. 😂
Oh boy I can’t wait to tell my parents to go to fff8::ab298:42cab3:187daq::1 to get to their router.
It’ll have a QR code printed on it.
That won’t take you to the router’s web server.
It’ll take you to the play store to download the app. Which requires Play Services and access to your exact location, contacts, storage, call history and messages, just to set up your router.MFW I first got my current router and went to set it up and couldn’t find the factory ID and password on it anywhere. Then realized it was on a damn app now. Which was bad enough, but after jumping through all the hoops, I discovered that (to no surprise really) what you can set up is very limited.
Sure I should buy my own router or flash an older one… but then again the last bad storm that fried the router this one replaced, the ISP replaced it at no charge. So… I live with it, I guess.
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to invest in some surge protection, if that’s an issue where you are?
it would still the ISP router be the one that connects to the network outside the building, so chances are that if it comes again over tge network cable, it will still only fry the ISP router
But then they can have like a bajillion devices connected to their router without any collisions!
Actually, it’s probably at http://[fd00::1]/
Unless it’s not and then we get alphanumeric soup
Anyone got that racoon gif?
I always liked this one where the racoon tries to wash some cotton candy to eat. Poor little guy.
No idea if it was this one, but I find it amusing
Silly racoon, that’s not how you abacus.
I hate IPv6 so fucking much.
I had to write an address validator and sanitizer once. Never again what the fuck were they thinking with the short forms?
I do like having a lot more addresses, that’s great. The short forms, embedded ipv4, bridges, etc are confusing as hell. Oh, also, you have to add that all to your email validator script, enjoy!
There are short forms in ipv4 as well, also you don’t actually need it. 😝
true, sometimes I use 127.1 instead of 127.0.0.1 and I have some coworkers that don’t know the 0 is optional and are wtf.
Is this for real
Yes. Now try 0177.0x1.
I’m pretty sure that IPv4 address formats are more complicated than IPv6 forms, if you are actually doing RFC-compliant validation.
I’m gonna stick with DNS
It is real. The missing spots are filled with zeros so it works out the same.
Holy shit, year of the IPv6??
(I know this was 2025)
IPv6 2026Well, at least the last digit fits. Better now than in 10 Years 😉
Oh, you have opinions on HRT? I’m taking away your IPv4 privileges.
I have quite a lot of opinions on HRT (Hormone replacement Therapy)
I’m here to listen. Talk all about HRT.
I’m here for the notification. I also want to know.
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we can thank the cell phone industrys use of IPv6 in the cell network for saving IPv4 for everyone else
Does anyone have some kind of beginner’s guide to transition a home network from v4 to v6? Everything I found is way too technical.
Asking here but feel free to direct me to a more appropriate sub
Meh, it doesn’t really offer anything for a home network.
And this is why it really hasn’t be adopted even by business - there’s already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn’t offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.
Now if you’re an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?
And if you’re an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?
Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you’d experience doing this.
There’s just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.
And if you’re in a larger company, you’re the guy or team that gets blamed for every. goddamn. network. problem. that happens after the transition.
Fuck that.
Well… Let’s say Linus goes on with his idea of removing IPv4 support. And let’s say I have just a handful of devices that support IPv6. And a long eastern weekend to do the switch. And I’m no SMB nor do I answer to shareholders…?
Doesn’t IPv6 offer less privacy?
Edit: thanks for the answers! Guess it’s a misconception.
Although ipv4 addresses still are easier to remember…
Only if you disable the pseudo address generation that is enabled by default on modern OSs.
No.
In one word: no. In more words: some addressing methods can lead to privacy and security issues, but those aren’t widely used anymore.
IPv6 addresses can be assigned to interfaces by several systems. One of those is SLAAC, or stateless address auto-configuration (comparable to APIPA and the
169.254.0.0/16address space for IPv4). One method by which it generates globally unique routable addresses is by inserting the interface’s MAC address into the IPv6 address. Since IPv6 generally doesn’t use network address translation (and thus no masquerading), this would advertise your computer’s MAC address to the whole internet. More recently, SLAAC uses pseudorandom temporary (or “privacy”) addresses for interfaces, together with a unique network prefix assigned to the customer (analogous to the single public IPv4 address).It’s also possible to assign IPv6 addresses statically or by using DHCPv6.
In theory, no.
In practice, yes.
No.
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