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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 139 points 1 month ago (43 children)

quite vocal about how the world should be organized, but forgot to pay the domain dues

[–] m_f@discuss.online 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (30 children)

DNS is neoliberalism incarnate πŸ˜‚

DNS is the most neoliberal shit system that too many have just accepted as how computers work and always worked to the point where I have heard actual landlord arguments deployed to defend it

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 18 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I mean... OK then just remember the IP addresses of the sites you use and don't use the domain names?

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

See? If you don't like DNS, you don't have to use DNS, it's not so hard.

And IPv6 won't be that much harder, it's only... uh... 32 hex digits you'll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, then someone would just create a directory that associates each ipv6 with the name of the company using it, so you can search for the easy to remember, human readable name which automa-

Oh I see what happened here.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There's even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh! The files are in the router!l

Queue jumping up and down like a monkey trying to rip apart my router in order to reach a website

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, you're right, I should just look up IP addresses in my NAT table. Maybe I should add comments to it so I know which IP is which.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yep literally this. don't most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No no no, see, DNS is bad, that's the whole point. No touchy.

Can't have any of that neoliberal stuff, gotta delete the hosts file.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits

I'm still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It's right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.

[–] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Your perspective makes you believe we're going in circles. In actuality, we're going down the drain...

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

At least they stopped dumping the yellow pages on my porch every year...

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