IPv6 Is Hard - Hackdot

Re:IPv6 Is Hard by vel0city on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:19PM (#43072317)

> But “what address do I send these packets to?” is like, 10% of the issue with designing p2p software

So wouldn't it be nice to go ahead and solve that 10% of the problem instead of just limping along with it?

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Re:IPv6 Is Hard by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:49PM (#43074491)

I hope you're not implying that IPv6 solves the problem of knowing what address to connect to.

If you can avoid an explicit port, that can be nice. But anywhere you're using an IP, v6 without a port is longer than v4 with a port. An implicit port is only useful when you're using DNS. (And if you're designing a service, you can choose to use DNS records that contain the port.)

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Re:IPv6 Is Hard by vel0city on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:45PM (#43074903)

I'm all for things to start using SRV records as well!

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