heinz_beanzawave@kbin.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year agoIPv6 rulemedia.kbin.socialimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageIPv6 rulemedia.kbin.socialheinz_beanzawave@kbin.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squareMoira_Mayhem@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIPv6 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.
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoMost 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.
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.
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.