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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by voytec on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:31PM (#35047150)
Lazy people like you (opinion based entirely on your comment) are why the world is not moving forward (fast enough). You should not be responsible for administering IT networks/servers/services if you're not willing to adapt to changes.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by dheera on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:38PM (#35047242)
> are why the world is not moving forward

I'm not an IT admin, but I disagree the world is not moving forward.

If I need to use IPv6, I would switch. But the reality is people are able to still build rocket ships, electric cars, and large language models with IPv4. The world is moving forward just fine.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by hot_gril on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:46PM (#35048120)
I hope you're on the new version of everything then, not just in your area of expertise. You're expecting people to want something that's worse for them if anything, and calling them lazy isn't going to help. What would've helped is making IPv6 more user-friendly.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by voytec on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:06PM (#35048397)
Not new version, but reliable version. I'm not a bleeding-edge fanatic, but I was testing IPv6 during the 6bone[1] phase while networking was not in my scope. It simply made sense to get to know the future.

The person who's comment I was responding to, is in denial 20 years later because they feel comfortable with IP addresses they can remember.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6bone

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by hot_gril on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:15PM (#35049215)
20 years later, a lot of things still don't support IPv6, and "IP" commonly means v4 unless otherwise specified. v6 isn't the stable thing yet. Less involved users aren't concerned with much about IP other than the addresses, and v6 changes those when it didn't really have to, so this is what happens.
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