IPv6 is horrible.
I would rather have many more decimal based addresses than trying to think in hex.
As for DNS, DNS is probably 30% of my problems and it just made it worse.
I would rather have many more decimal based addresses than trying to think in hex.
As for DNS, DNS is probably 30% of my problems and it just made it worse.
> We'll need to keep running a local DHCP server at home so that our obsolete IPv4 light bulbs keep working. We'll keep needing NAT so that our obsolete IPv4 light bulbs can keep reaching the Internet.
I feel seen :-(
v6 is designed the way it is precisely because it needs to run on the same networks that v4 does, and v6 is a better design than v4 in our world because our world has completely outgrown v4.
Decimal: 32.1.13.184.171.205.239.171.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1
Hex looks easier to me. Plus it has the upside of splitting well on /64, /60, /56, /48, /32 which are the common cidr splits in IPv6.
Can you split the decimal on a /56 in your head? I always have to use a cidr calculator for IPv4 (/27, /28, /22) but never with IPv6.
Maybe change tooling?
IPv6 is awful, but it is what it is and I appreciate the death of NAT.
the reverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address
4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab
would be
b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.2.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.IP6.
ARPA.
You learn IPv4 using dot-decimal ? What a noob !
Could not you learn all the IP as numbers, like a real man ?