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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 10:35:02 +0100
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On 20/05/2025 05:17, c186282 wrote:
> On 5/18/25 3:26 AM, Popping Mad wrote:
>> On 5/17/25 2:01 PM, vallor wrote:
>>> IPv6 is the future.
>>
>>
>> fuck ip6
> 
>    We WILL need it, or something LIKE it, eventually
>    IOT, most of the world signing up ... IPV4 is NOT
>    gonna be enough.
> 
>    But for NOW ... yea ... I disable IPV6. My ISP
>    doesn't even do it, so why suffer the probs ?
> 
+1.
Its so radically different that I cant be arsed to go through a learning 
curve on something I don't need right now

>    Hmmm ... IPV5, with the usual dot notation ...
>    backwards-compatible intelligent ... that OUGHT
>    to cover it for a really long time. Maybe by
>    then we will have to bring space alien networks
>    into things, but perhaps they have the better
>    scheme eh ?
> 
>    "Backwards-compatible", in this case, means the
>    software/drivers automatically appending a ".000"
>    to detected IPV4 addresses without user intervention.

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