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Re:IPv6 should concede to using v4 addresses, for now by hot_gril on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:23PM (#33030134)
1. Once the world collectively moves on from v4, you stop assigning v4-mapped v6 addresses. And nothing stops you from assigning two v6 addresses to a single iface in the meantime.

3. Yeah, it shows my ipv4 only, and I have both. Do you not have a v4?

6. No, there's not, but the reality is everyone you're trying to switch over to v6 is already used to v4, and it's like herding cats.

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Re:IPv6 should concede to using v4 addresses, for now by noipv6 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @10:32PM (#33052266)
hey, sorry i didn’t respond. i may have read the reply & gotten drunk. hard to say.

1. why would you add the extra step of using a “v4-mapped v6 address” if you’re just going to end up using regular ones?

3. if you have ipv6 but that google link shows a legacy ip address, your ipv6 connectivity is broken somehow. you’re not behind some sort of weird nat66, are you?

6. that’s getting less true with every passing year, thankfully

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