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All we need is ONE major website to declare 24 Hour brown-out for IPv4 and put a message something like "Contact your ISP to upgrade your connection". Alas, publicly traded companies....
Will there be an OS layer that can run an app in IPv4 compatibility mode of some sort?
At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology. It used to be interesting to see the news about new ipv6 deployments, adoption ratings etc. Now I basically don't care.
I recently moved, and was mildly annoyed to find that my ISP didn’t assign me an IPv6 address. Then I remembered that, in order to get one at my previous location (same ISP), I had to call and specifically request it. That was six years ago . If they haven’t defaulted to giving out IPv6 addresses by now, it’s never gonna happen. I honestly can’t figure out why they don’t, as it has to be cheaper to just do it than ma…
I don't care if I have to write angry letters to senators to pass laws forbidding the sunsetting of ipv4, this is 100% an issue I will go down fighting tooth and nail until I die or ipv6 dies, whichever first.
At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology. It used to be interesting to see the news about new ipv6 deployments, adoption ratings etc. Now I basically don't care.
I recently moved, and was mildly annoyed to find that my ISP didn’t assign me an IPv6 address. Then I remembered that, in order to get one at my previous location (same ISP), I had to call and specifically request it. That was six years ago . If they haven’t defaulted to giving out IPv6 addresses by now, it’s never gonna happen. I honestly can’t figure out why they don’t, as it has to be cheaper to just do it than ma…
Never is long time. I bet you that they will be providing ipv6 as default in 20 years from now if they are still in business.
At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology. It used to be interesting to see the news about new ipv6 deployments, adoption ratings etc. Now I basically don't care.
> At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology. Meanwhile 45% of Google's worldwide traffic is IPv6, 53% in the US: * https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
At this point I'm personally convinced that ipv6 is a failed technology. It used to be interesting to see the news about new ipv6 deployments, adoption ratings etc. Now I basically don't care.
Setting up IPv6 on my home network was fun and exciting now it's just boring. The only time I've noticed it was was once when IPv4 broke (dhcp server issue) and another time when IPv6 itself broke (radvd issue). All that said I do sort of wonder when or if we'll ever move off dual stack. I think there's a strong argument that running two protocols at once is riskier then the combined risks of the two.
What happens to all old software that is more or less "hard-coded" to use IPv4 addresses? Will there be an OS layer that can run an app in IPv4 compatibility mode of some sort?
[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6877
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanism#464X...
Does anyone know why German universities are so slow to deploy IPv6? Almost none has their website reachable over IPv6 or IPv6 on their internal network.
When I asked the IT staff at my university years ago, they said that there are still some very old routers without IPv6 support in use. And since everything seems to work with IPv4 for the university administration, there is no money for new ones.
All we need is ONE major website to declare 24 Hour brown-out for IPv4 and put a message something like "Contact your ISP to upgrade your connection". Alas, publicly traded companies....
Citation "IPv6 was designed to restore the end-to-end model of communications with all nodes on networks using globally unique addresses. But considering this, IPv6 may imply privacy concerns due to greater visibility on the Internet."
First, the IPv4 address space is tiny. Say, a PING packet is 84 bytes, so pinging the entire IPv4 address space will take you all of 336GB of traffic each way (not even accounting for the reserved parts). That can be done in the space of an hour in a decent connection. So things can and are being trivially found by brute force. If a vulnerability is found in something interesting you can bet that by tomorrow lots of nefarious people figured out who can be broken into.
Second, IPv6 has the privacy extensions, which means that even if somebody knows your address today, this has a very limited lifetime to it. Privacy extensions regularly randomize your IP address.
Under IPv6 even normal people can get more address space than can be reasonably scanned. This makes it harder to identify machines permanently, makes it harder to figure out how many machines there are and makes brute force scanning extremely impractical.