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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:45PM (#33897522)
Sure, as long as you're ok with having a constantly changing prefix. At least that's how it is for home connections and it nullifies nearly all the benefits of v6.
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by Dagger2 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:14PM (#33900353)
You don't need a fixed prefix to get most of the benefits of v6.

DNS is a thing.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:22PM (#33900469)
I can do dynamic DNS on v4 too.

It also complicates firewalls, because now they need to deal with the prefix switching on them and updating their rules to match. As I recall this was only recently added to pfSense.

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