• Moira_Mayhem@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    IPv6 is all well and good until you need to read of an IP address for a call or write it down if you don’t have copy-paste UI access.

    Then you will pine for the days of four octets.

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      At least an IPv6 address is actually routable without going through 3½ layers of NAT. It has 128-bit addresses for a reason.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Most addresses do not use full character lenght. Your localhost is ::1 for example. Local network can be configured for shorter addresses.

      I get twice long addresses over poking the NAT and doing several reverse proxies as for now.