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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

a lot of sys and net admins really don’t like the idea of every lan device being globally addressable

Those admins don't know what they're talking about. IPv6 has a region of the address space that can only be reached locally - similar to the 192.168.x.x space in IPv4. The only difference is it's really big (way bigger than the entire IPv4 space).

As for NAT... there's nothing stopping you from using it with IPv6. It's often unnecessary, but if you disagree you can use it. And in practice NAT is often part of the transition process to IPv6 - my cell network carrier for example gives my phone an IPv6 address on their internal network but routes all my traffic to the regular internet via IPv4. They are using NAT to do that. If you try to ping my phone's IPv6 address, it won't reach my phone.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly my biggest issue with ipv6, aside from not understanding it, which I don't, at all, I've realized while setting up my own opnsense firewall, is that they decided on FUVKING COLONS. AND LETTERS. Okay, cool, hexadecimal exists, that's swell, but typing them is such a fucking pain in the ass.

There's no way to put your fingers on a keyboard to make it feel natural.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Nothing the mechanical keyboard community can't solve.

https://ipv6buddy.com/

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

While I agree that it is godawful to type and worse to read, let alone remember, you wouldn’t want these addresses in full decimal notation…