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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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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

IPv6 is here, and has been for a long time. But if, for example, your web or email server can only be reached over IPv6 some people will not be able to load the site or send emails to you.

The entire internet is configured to work with IPv4. Some of the internet (less than a quarter) is also configured to also work with IPv6.

Imagine if your home had two driveways on different streets. Do you tell everyone both addresses, or do you pick one of them? Probably just one right? Now imagine if the second address can only be reached if someone has an off road capable vehicle. And you don't know what vehicle someone has - which address would you give them? Is it even worth having two driveways?

That's the situation we're in. IPv4 support is required and works perfectly. IPv6 is optional and doesn't always work.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

“Luckily” we are reaching the point where IPv4 just isn’t going to be fiscally sustainable for the majority of companies, meaning the push to IPv6 will be hastened.

Though I don’t pretend it isn’t going to be a hell of a ride.

[–] ___@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

192.169.x.x will always be easier than fe80:x:x::x:x

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I definitely agree with automatically configured stuff, but I enjoy setting link-local static IP address with IPv6, like my home server is fe80::bad:c0de or 192.168.0.2, and my NAS is fe80::coo1:da1a or 192.168.0.3. I've definitely mistyped the IPv4 a few times (see your 169 typo), but the IPv6 always delivers hackerman vibes.

I have also set <prefix>::bad:c0de and have my IPv6 prefix on a keybind, but I understand that's a bit of a stretch.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have never thought of writing things with static ipv6.

I have been missing out.

[–] exception4289@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You're missing out your ::cafe's

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

fe80::dead:beef

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