@swaggboi@masto.rootdc.xyz @terryenglish@social.librem.one @fireglow@social.firc.de Yep. What really bothers me is when people NAT IPv6. Whoever decided to update NAT to support IPv6 needs to be burned at the stake.
The worst is when sysadmins try to claim it's the only way to setup a network firewall. That's basically an admission that they have no idea what they're doing.
@terryenglish@social.librem.one @fireglow@social.firc.de @swaggboi@masto.rootdc.xyz Yeah, we learned our lesson with IPv4. 64-bit addressing would likely be enough but we weren't gonna take any chances so we went with 128-bit addressing and gave everyone a /64. You get assigned more IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses in existence.
If you're worried we're throwing them around willy-nilly don't. There are a total of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPv6 address so we won't be running out any time soon.
Just for shits and giggles here's the total number of IPv6 addresses in words:
There are a total of three hundred forty undecillion two hundred eighty-two decillion three hundred sixty-six nonillion nine hundred twenty octillion nine hundred thirty-eight septillion four hundred sixty-three sextillion four hundred sixty-three quintillion three hundred seventy-four quadrillion six hundred seven trillion four hundred thirty-one billion seven hundred sixty-eight million two hundred eleven thousand four hundred fifty-six IPv6 address.
@sjw @terryenglish @fireglow Whoops, I meant to say "multiple IPs on the same interface" but yes you're right the scarcity of IPv4 addresses would prevent this either way
@swaggboi@masto.rootdc.xyz @fireglow@social.firc.de @terryenglish@social.librem.one
Another benefit to IPv6: you can have multiple IPs!
Same with IPv4 they're just scare so you usually only get a /32 but you can get larger subnets.@fireglow @terryenglish I use a ULA prefix in addition to the /60 Comcast delegated (via DHCP-PD) so that way my local DNS can point to these addresses rather than (the potentially changing) Comcast prefix: https://pastebin.com/052ZXt1s That address beginning with "fdc5:" is it, it's not routable across the internets sadly but it at least remains the same if Comcast delegates me a new prefix so my local DNS records will still work. Another benefit to IPv6: you can have multiple IPs!
@terryenglish I get a /60 prefix from Comcast and run both IPv4 & 6 on my home network. It bums me out to see so many comments on that article bemoaning lack of backward compatibility when this “dual-stack” approach works well without the added complexity of NATing between the protocols. Since IPv4 “just works” at first glance I think it’s left a lot of people in the dark on how to transition or even why they should bother in the first place
Can we now switch to IPv6? Pwetty pwease ☺️
There is now a literal waitlist for IPv4 addresses. And no jumping the line
RIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/31/ipv4_address_queue/
I started to see overloaded IPv6 international transit on the China Unicom backbone network for the first time, never seen that before... 70% packet loss, comparable to the old network.
It used to have great stability, possibly due to the fact that nobody was using it. As the deployment rate goes up, I guess our IPv6 early-adopters' free lunch is over. If anyone sees me suddenly disappear from Fediverse in the middle of a conversation, you could know the China Unicom backbone explodes 
And the winner of the 2020 Democratic Party primary is...instead of any of the nominees...Hilary Clinton!
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