Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 10:35:02 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 37 Message-ID: <100hic6$25ta5$3@dont-email.me> References: <100c243$c9t$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 11:35:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2dd12f66336441a04c2fd3ec74ebcb9c"; logging-data="2291013"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189QMqazpIhEPg2SEDWksN8A27J6k8MV/g=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GtlRojtx3drFVqA9IB0JduIL4Es= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2439 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. -- Labour - a bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people by telling poor people that "other" rich people are the reason they are poor. Peter Thompson