I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms

Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by xnyanta on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:23PM (#35051516)

Adding A-F to the 0-9 existing digits in ip addresses makes them non-human readable? Give me a break. We've had something human-readable since the dawn of the internet: it's called DNS and works with both IP families.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by Dalewyn on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:33PM (#35051584)

Tell me Google DNS's IPv6 addresses without looking them up. I won't wait.

Sometimes we need to deal with raw IP addresses instead of abstraction layers, and IPv6 fails hilariously because it clearly goes beyond the realm of direct human consumption.

You saying a non-human readable thing is human readable if it's passed through an abstraction layer to make something human readable only reinforces the argument IPv6 is not human readable.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by bert64 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:30AM (#35056404)

The way you see legacy IP addresses is also an abstraction layer, their actual form is as a 32bit integer.

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