Remember guys, using GIFs of Racoon's in a discussion is ok, as long as you keep them below 1mb.
Where may I acquire my 1mb racoon gifs from?
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Oh boy I canβt wait to tell my parents to go to fff8::ab298:42cab3:187daq::1 to get to their router.
It'll have a QR code printed on it.
That won't take you to the router's web server.
It'll take you to the play store to download the app. Which requires Play Services and access to your exact location, contacts, storage, call history and messages, just to set up your router.
MFW I first got my current router and went to set it up and couldn't find the factory ID and password on it anywhere. Then realized it was on a damn app now. Which was bad enough, but after jumping through all the hoops, I discovered that (to no surprise really) what you can set up is very limited.
Sure I should buy my own router or flash an older one... but then again the last bad storm that fried the router this one replaced, the ISP replaced it at no charge. So... I live with it, I guess.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to invest in some surge protection, if that's an issue where you are?
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But then they can have like a bajillion devices connected to their router without any collisions!
Tbh, ipv4 is probably just a random string of nonsense to them anyways
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Well you could accept the default generated one, or set it to fe80::1 manually. Don't most good routers now have a DNS server in? So you could make it router.local or something?
I think some even by default make a DNS entry call router.local or similar pointing to themselves. This isn't a real problem and if IPv6 were adopted fully, then all routers would likely come with something like this setup anyway.
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Anyone got that racoon gif?
No idea if it was this one, but I find it amusing
Silly racoon, that's not how you abacus.
Correction: that's not how YOU abacus.
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I always liked this one where the racoon tries to wash some cotton candy to eat. Poor little guy.
How dare you. This shit is heartbreaking.
Holy shit, year of the IPv6??
(I know this was 2025)
IPv6
2026
Well, at least the last digit fits. Better now than in 10 Years π
The thing is. Any year can be the year of IPv6. Google is on ipv6, youtube is on ipv6, facebook is on ipv6. Pretty much every datacentre I've used (OK limited to Europe) give you IPv6 for free by default. Deploying a web site to be IPv4 and IPv6 is trivial and people that use automation should be able to quite easily apply ipv6 to those scripts.
It's really just the ISPs (more so in the US as I understand it), lazy IT people and the FUD myths holding us back at this point.
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Oh, you have opinions on HRT? I'm taking away your IPv4 privileges.
I hate IPv6 so fucking much.
I had to write an address validator and sanitizer once. Never again what the fuck were they thinking with the short forms?
I do like having a lot more addresses, thatβs great. The short forms, embedded ipv4, bridges, etc are confusing as hell. Oh, also, you have to add that all to your email validator script, enjoy!
So you're now scared of :: padding oh no.
Also why are you writing an address validator yourself? Shouldn't be there like a bazillion libraries by now? xD
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There are short forms in ipv4 as well, also you don't actually need it. π
true, sometimes I use 127.1 instead of 127.0.0.1 and I have some coworkers that don't know the 0 is optional and are wtf.
Is this for real
Yes. Now try 0177.0x1.
I'm pretty sure that IPv4 address formats are more complicated than IPv6 forms, if you are actually doing RFC-compliant validation.
I'm gonna stick with DNS
It is real. The missing spots are filled with zeros so it works out the same.
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Love me some IPv6. With mDNS and link local addresses, can get two hosts talking either directly connected or with just an unmanaged switch.
That is also possible with IPv4 though.
IPv4 can eventually do it via APIPA and make it's own link local addresses, but only as a fallback after DHCP times out. With IPv6, link-local is the first step of SLAAC. The interface comes up, you instantly get a fe80:: address, and you have immediate connectivity on the switch without waiting for DHCP to fail. When deploying unprovisioned (not having to set a static IP for each host) embedded Linux images, I prefer IPv6's native design over IPv4's error state.
Now if only my ISP (Quantum Fiber/Century Link/AT&T) would offer native IPv6.
Does anyone have some kind of beginner's guide to transition a home network from v4 to v6? Everything I found is way too technical.
Asking here but feel free to direct me to a more appropriate sub
Meh, it doesn't really offer anything for a home network.
And this is why it really hasn't be adopted even by business - there's already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn't offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.
Now if you're an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?
And if you're an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?
Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you'd experience doing this.
There's just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.
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You're already doing great if you just don't disable IPv6. Bonus points if your ISP and your router supports proper dual stack IPv4 + v6, then you can actually connect to the internet using v6! Also, fun fact: the original Nintendo Switch does not support IPv6 at all. Pretty much all other non-ancient consumer stuff should be fine. Check your clients IP address assignments, maybe you're already using IPv6.
we can thank the cell phone industrys use of IPv6 in the cell network for saving IPv4 for everyone else
In the battle of IP v 6, IP won. Better luck next time 6.
Doesn't IPv6 offer less privacy?
Edit: thanks for the answers! Guess it's a misconception.
Although ipv4 addresses still are easier to remember...
Only if you disable the pseudo address generation that is enabled by default on modern OSs.
No.
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