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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: 16 May 2025 19:17:51 GMT
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On Fri, 16 May 2025 10:35:46 +0200, Koen Martens wrote:

> Den 2025-05-16 kl. 03:20, skrev rbowman:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2025 21:01:16 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Why the IPx6 hatred?
>> 
>> You can remember 192.168.1.2.  Good luck with fe80::261:5f21:d38a:aa02.
>> Would you like to predict the IPv6 address of 192.168.1.3?
>> 
>> 
> Yes, remembering one IPv4 address is easy. Unfortunately, many have to
> deal with 100s, sometimes 1000s of hosts, and remembering them all is
> impossible. Heck, I even have trouble remembering the IP addresses oft
> he ~100 devices on my home LAN. This is why we have DNS.


True, but it's not a problem in my local WiFi network. I suppose I could 
put the fours or five machines in the hosts file. At work there is DNS so 
using host names work but at times it's handy to know what subnet a 
machine is on. If you can do that from a IPv6 address I've never figured 
it out.