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Re:Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:07AM (#35700700)
> that would be a huge cost with no benefit at all.

Internet facing IPv6 infrastructure is usually much cheaper that their equivalent IPv4 enabled peers.

So supporting IPv4 can be the huge cost with no benefit at all, if all your clients/peers can use IPv6

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Re:Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:03PM (#35719219)
> if all your clients/peers can use IPv6

Including the case where you have something else in the middle already - for example, if you're fronting a website through cloudflare, then you can only have IPv6 on your server and still support dual-stack for clients:)

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