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Well… only about 10 years after headlines were fearmongering about the world breaking due to IP addresses not being available.
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Having a non-residential IP address is likely to get you blocked from services like Netflix. It would be nice if there were some way to decouple connectivity from addressing, without becoming a second-class citizen of the internet.
I don't use Netflix but that never happened to me.
Anyone go out of their way to disable IPV6 on all their systems, even at the hardware level, like on routers etc? What's a good reason to avoid IPV6?
I sure wish Starlink supported IPv6. They're a brand new ISP planning for millions of customers and decided from the start they couldn't get enough IPv4 addresses for everyone. Fair enough! But we're stuck with Carrier Grade NAT and it is a drag. On Starlink it's impossible to host a server socket directly, which makes any peer to peer networking a PITA. Geocoding IP addresses doesn't work so I have to bend over back…
>I fill out 10x as many CAPTCHAs This a feature, not a bug. You can now identify a traffic light on a subconscious level 3x further away than the average driver that has an assigned IPv4. Where average drivers hesitate upon seeing a yellow light, wondering if they have enough time to go or not, you just know that a slight uptick in speed will get you through the intersection right as that yellow flashes over to red.
Anyone go out of their way to disable IPV6 on all their systems, even at the hardware level, like on routers etc? What's a good reason to avoid IPV6?
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>IPv4 servers are reachable by IPv6-only clients How does this work?
I forget this part of IPv6 class (I've literally gone to several IPv6 classes throughout the years but then end up forgetting details because I've yet to use it in production), but since the IPv6 space is so large, it's trivial to put an IPv4 address into it, and so they make NAT 6to4 type gateways that map the IPv4 internet into a block on the IPv6 network.
None of the computers I own personally use IPv6. IPv6 is a bad idea. IPv6 is a straight connection from the Internet through everything in the network, right to the individual machine. Give my IPv4 and NAT or turn the Internet off.
Anyone go out of their way to disable IPV6 on all their systems, even at the hardware level, like on routers etc? What's a good reason to avoid IPV6?
None of the computers I own personally use IPv6. IPv6 is a bad idea. IPv6 is a straight connection from the Internet through everything in the network, right to the individual machine. Give my IPv4 and NAT or turn the Internet off.
It's not though. It goes through a router which has a firewall, which is the exact feature you're presumably wanting from a NAT but without any of the annoying downsides.
Well… only about 10 years after headlines were fearmongering about the world breaking due to IP addresses not being available.