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   Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 19:04:53 JST Phantasm
   Anyone that thinks IPv6 should not die is deranged.
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 21:30:32 JST Vokainen

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     @phnt I remember those fearmongering articles in the late 2000s about how the internet was about to "run out of IP addresses" without ipv6
     
     Even then, they could have just made longer addresses, instead of the weird numbers + letters formatting ipv6 uses
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 21:35:12 JST Phantasm

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     • Vokainen

     @vokainen099 We've run out of V4 addresses a long time ago. Instead you rent them from companies and that's alright in my book.

     It's not even about the stupidity of the address syntax, how hard it is to parse and how stupidly huge the address space is. The whole concepts behind IPv6 are flawed.

     • The idea that devices on my LAN should get publicly routable addresses is insane.
     • The whole concept of SLAAC and link-local gateways is insane. When I don't have any auto-configuration running on a part of a network, I don't want the interfaces to decide that they should still assign addresses to each other. Perhaps the configuration is missing on purpose.
     • When hosting providers throw /64s at every VM you buy, the size of the address space is useless when it's occupied by a small fraction of machines. IPs are supposed to be addresses to machines and not that you have 2^64 addresses resemble a single machine.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 23:01:57 JST Phantasm

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend Not really bugs, but implementations still have weird quirks.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 23:01:58 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @phnt
     Isn't IPv6 still having major bugs causing slow downs to adaptation?