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   Kelvin n0mql EN35ld (kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 01:57:13 JST Kelvin n0mql EN35ld

   @jima

   If ipv6 requires decent-career-level of expertise, it's not for me.

   So far, nothing has come up that has made me need nor want to touch ipv6, and I'm hopeful it will remain that way until I die.

   That is, if I HAVE to use ipv6, I hope it's someone else's problem, and free/transparent to me.

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     kasperd (kasperd@westergaard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 01:57:12 JST kasperd

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     IPv6 is simpler than IPv4. If you run everything as IPv6 it's so nice to work with.

     The only hard problem you will face is people who refuse do do IPv6, and suddenly you end up with a load of crap to work around lack of IPv6 and shortcomings of IPv4.

     IPv6 is not to blame for those problems as they only show up where IPv6 is missing.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     get (get@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 01:47:46 JST get

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     • kasperd
     @7666 @kelvin0mql @kasperd can't remember ipv6 addresses in your head, sounds like a skill issue 👬
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 01:47:47 JST 7666

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     • kasperd
     @kasperd @kelvin0mql @jima >IPv6 is simpler than IPv4
     
     This breaks apart when I'm trying to remember any internal IP address and can't get past fe80. And god forbid if there's double colons in the middle somewhere or you're trying to remember the /64 prefix you were given by an upstream...
     
     Usability just ain't great. Publishing IPv6 externally is fine but you'll be doing 6 to 4 NAT if you don't fully route IPv6 internally to all your devices and now it gets nastier if you can't just do the translation there and only there. I'm planning to just add quad A records at my edge and NAT it back to an IPv4 internal IP wherever it needs to go because at least I can remember those and I have that option.
     meso repeated this.