Hacker News now supports IPv6 - More of a general discussion about IPv6

[crunk connoisseur]

Funny anecdote that I read in that HN thread:
You don't have to write out IPs as groups of 8 bytes, you can skip some dots (into [8, 8, 16] or [8, 24] groups) and even all of them, using decimal or hexadecimal number instead:

 

[⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛]

The main argument for using a bunch of hexidecimal is that a 128 bit address would be very long in dot-decimal. 16 octets instead of 4. There really aren't any good solutions to representing a 128 bit integer in a memorable way.

I understand DNS is supposed to be adding support for ipv6 at some point in the future, this may provide a useful solution for those who need to be able to access a particular server.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I understand DNS is supposed to be adding support for ipv6 at some point in the future, this may provide a useful solution for those who need to be able to access a particular server.

DNS sucks and certainly isn't the future of the Internet, if the Internet has a future at all, as this very forum's problems with it have demonstrated.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

. Universally unique addresses are stupid.

i've always imagined IPv6 would segregate the addresses better, that way most people will only need to worry about the last 8 digits at most.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I understand DNS is supposed to be adding support for ipv6 at some point in the future, this may provide a useful solution for those who need to be able to access a particular server.

Gosh. Imagine being able to type in a memorable name instead of a random string of numbers and letters. It could revolutionise the network.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

DNS sucks and certainly isn't the future of the Internet, if the Internet has a future at all, as this very forum's problems with it have demonstrated.

Are you really saying that typing out number addresses is the future and resolving that number to a name isn't? Registrars are corrupted and it sucks that ISPs can just blackhole as they want, but the protocol itself isn't the problem, obviously.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Are you really saying that typing out number addresses is the future and resolving that number to a name isn't?

No. I'm merely claiming the DNS won't survive these political issues. There will come some other way to map names to addresses, even if a globally-unique way never again occurs.