IPv6 rule

IPv6 is all well and good until you need to read of an IP address for a call or write it down if you don't have copy-paste UI access.

Then you will pine for the days of four octets.

At least an IPv6 address is actually routable without going through 3½ layers of NAT. It has 128-bit addresses for a reason.
- This is undeniably true though as I am tasked as the security monitor for several tiny LANs, NOT letting every device have DMZ access has its advantages.
  Maybe I'm just too greybeard to want to change. I love IPv6 for infrastructure and personal devices. For my home LAN and those I am responsible for, a tightly nailed down IPv4 environment is what I prefer.
  I'll leave the massive address space and IoT readiness to you young and upcoming packet jockys, and in my retirement will marvel at the wonders you create.
  For now, you'll get your DHCP and you'll like it if you want to stay in my house young man!
we need to downgrade to a new IPv5 and just add an extra triplet of numbers to IPv4 addresses
- That's a pretty good idea actually but may not cleanly translate to existing infrsatructure.
- That's only 140 IP addresses per person. With things like microservices and IoT, we have already passed that.
  Every major website uses hundreds of thousands of IP addresses each. Every part of your car has an IP address. Every digital sign in public places have IP addresses. Every electronic lock might have an IP address. Every electronic that you own might already have an IP address. Every light bulb in your house will have an IP address.
  But yeah, IPv6 is needed. The solution I think is not to make ipv6 addresses shorter, but to make DNS ubiquitous.
Idk, it's only 32 characters with only 16 possible values per character.
Most addresses do not use full character lenght. Your localhost is ::1 for example. Local network can be configured for shorter addresses.
I get twice long addresses over poking the NAT and doing several reverse proxies as for now.

this image is accurate and i hate it so fucking much

ipv6 is literally the classy future. get with it ipv4 plebes!

-posted via ipv4

If only ISPs in my country decided to actually give a shit about IPv6 instead of deciding to NAT even harder.

At this point aren't all that excess processing losing them money? Like, you can still sell IPv4 if that's how you make a profit but what reason do you have to not just click the "turn on IPv6" button that is probably there if your networking equipment is made in the last century or so????