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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by Tractor8626 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:21AM (#46473299)
One would think that in 30 years there will be some sort of best practises established. Some articles to refer people to. Or at least some people to share their experience and answer practical questions.

And yet there is still only "you doing it wrong, and I won't tell you how to do it right"

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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by kalterdev on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:54AM (#46473415)
IPv6 existence is questioned not because people fail to configure it. It’s because they do not understand the problems it solves. Those problems are so large they’re invisible at the individual human scale. You either know them (which is not a secret) or invent superficial charges against the design.
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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by Tractor8626 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:34AM (#46473619)
No. People fail to configure it. Then start to question why this piece of garbage exist.

It doesn't matter what problems it supposed to solve if it doesn't work.

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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by braiamp on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:25AM (#46477033)
Here's a counter: people don't need to configure it. They just need to connect to the network and the network is smart enough that it's essentially plug and play.
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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world by Tractor8626 on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:28AM (#46485783)
Maybe your magic ipv6 configures everything.

My have certain shortcomings: it doesn't assign dns names to hosts and doesn't configure firewall rules

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