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3h49ry7zg··on The IPv6 Mess
Suppose you are using a cloud hosting service, or multiple such services, and don't have the luxury of an internal network? Then your network IS the public internet.
3h49ry7zg··on The IPv6 Mess
I'm quite confused why this is getting attention. It's not hugely difficult to enable a public IPv6 address on a server alongside the IPv4 address. The advantage of doing so? If one runs a serious website, there are many more back-end servers that handle database requests etc. than there are user-facing webservers, and all of these back-end servers can use IPv6 to talk to each other and the webservers. If IPv6 addresses are cheaper and easier to get, then it's a win for the company. They can upgrade each internal client-server pair to IPv6 in unison since they're a single organization.