The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem

Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by tekklloneer on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:13PM (#11137066)

Hostname discovery (mdns), etc solves it on local networks. If DNS is down or broken, it would be difficult for me to "use the internet", and I'd have to copy and paste a lot anyways.

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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by akira2501 on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:59PM (#11137407)

So, run yet another service with a poorly thought out RFC and add another code base to my vulnerability monitoring?

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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by tekklloneer on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:24PM (#11137546)

At home/small business scale, yes. At enterprise scale, you shouldn't be relying on IP addresses for clients for anything important.

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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by api on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:14PM (#11137076)

mDNS is slow and unreliable and on large networks it doesn't scale. I personally don't find it very useful since half the time it barely works even on wired LANs let alone big WiFi or distributed networks. It's also prone to naming conflicts (is this linux-1, linux-2, or linux-3?) and other OS configuration issues and is not secure.

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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by jauer on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:51PM (#11137357)

On a network like that, wouldn't DDNS solve the problem?

I mean DDNS where the DHCP server tells the DNS server which IP has what hostname, not e.g. dyndns.

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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by emmelaich on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:13PM (#11137786)

I don't think people trust DDNS enough in corporate networks and any security sensitive network.

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