Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by est31 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @05:09AM
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DNS is great but it is not available in all settings. Eventually you need to type in ip addresses, there are gazillions of workflows where you have to do that.
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
by keiyakins on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:45PM
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There's only a very few places where typing IP addresses actually makes sense. Configuring DNS is the main one. Trying to isolate problems is another - if you can ping 8.8.8.8 but not google.com you can reasonably infer that the problem is DNS. I really can't think of any others.
That latter one is admittedly kind of a pain, but a wallet-sized cheat sheet can solve it for you. Might be a good idea to try to convince vendors to include a reliable entry or two in the hosts file for that purpose? You can always add it yourself for now, when you're on your own workstation.