Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by api on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:49PM (#21379525)

This isn't a great solution. Every IT person knows "its always DNS," and you have to set up IP stuff to bring up DNS in general. DNS is brittle and doesn't deal well with multiple network domains or debugging if the network is down, and those are precisely the situations where one finds oneself typing IPs.

I really think the size of the IPs is a major cause of slow V6 uptake.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by Fnoord on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:31AM (#21385108)

Size in which regard though? They're hexadecimals. If they were numbers or letters (0-9, a-z instead of 0-0, a-f) the number of bits would be still high, but with lower amount of characters. You might loose something beautiful as autoconfig but who needs a /64 for one device anyway? Plus, it does not work well for anonymity. You might as well randomize it.

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