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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by stingraycharles on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:51AM (#20172609)
Not necessarily. How would I go about making these IPs easily discoverable by other hosts? DNS again?
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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by teddyh on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:01AM (#20172917)
Or mDNS: http://www.multicastdns.org/

As used by Apple’s Bonjour implementation of the Zeroconf networking stack.

If using Debian or the like, just apt install avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns, and access your hosts on the local network as servername.local.

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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by starfox64_ on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:02AM (#20172922)
Yes, you would probably then have to allow inbound traffic to these addresses in your ISP router's firewall or whatever you have.

If your router's default configuration is sane it should (by default) only allow returning connections and drop any other.

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