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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by codegeek on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:51PM (#33899310)
I always joke with "We figured out how to move from Python 2 to 3 but we still cannot figure out how to do IPv6" :). What a catastrophic failure it has been. Should we just stop using it altogether and retire or are there people still advocating ?
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by Gigachad on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:16PM (#33901778)
IPv6 adoption is growing at 5% per year and is currently around 40% https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

I expect as we get closer to the end we will see it pick up speed. Countries are now mandating IPv6 support as early as this month https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/india-sets-new-de...

Things are still moving forward, faster than ever at this point.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by ipython on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:19PM (#33899681)
Yes, people are using ipv6 for real deployments. See any large scale mobile network deployment. Funny thing is most people never realize because it all just works…
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jandrese on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:41PM (#33902557)
What are you going to use instead? IPv4 is already bursting at the seams and starting over from scratch at this point means at least a decade before a new solution could even be considered.
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by icedchai on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:41PM (#33902550)
You'd be surprised. A former employer is still writing new Python 2 code.
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