Re:IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4
by throw0101b on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:33AM
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> My ISP is IPv4 only and I host plenty of shit and punch plenty of holes. That’s a function of my firewall not how many bits are in my IP address.
Not wrong, but if you want multiple servers of the same service, you're now doing custom ports (myhost:port1, myhost:port2, etc) which isn't the end of the world, but is kind of sucky.
And if we're not talking just about servers running services, but clients that want to do peer-to-peer stuff, you also have to use things like STUN/TURN/ICE which is more infrastructure that is needed (as opposed to 'just' hole punching since your system already knows its IP(v6) address).
Given the prevalence of these technologies (kludges?) they've kind of been normalized so we think they're "fine".
Not wrong, but if you want multiple servers of the same service, you're now doing custom ports (myhost:port1, myhost:port2, etc) which isn't the end of the world, but is kind of sucky.
And if we're not talking just about servers running services, but clients that want to do peer-to-peer stuff, you also have to use things like STUN/TURN/ICE which is more infrastructure that is needed (as opposed to 'just' hole punching since your system already knows its IP(v6) address).
Given the prevalence of these technologies (kludges?) they've kind of been normalized so we think they're "fine".