this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
126 points (100.0% liked)

Ask Lemmy

33292 readers
1823 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

IPv4.

IPv6 became a recognized standard by 1998.

EDIT: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6-adoption

Nearly 30 years later, and less than half of the connections to Google are via IPv6.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Lolol, you're not wrong. NAT made IPv6 a later problem

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I can't understand that gibberish, speak RFC 791 like a true patriot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IPv6 is such an ugly monster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It just isn't and I'm sick of people being scared of hexadecimals lol

You can even spell stuff with them which is way easier to remember, my router's ULA is fd13:dead:beef::1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

:cafe:babe: is another common one. Or :acdc:feed: .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

There was a burger joint we did IT for and we made their ULA fd14:dead:beef:cafe::1

I thought it was a bit clever

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I'm almost at the point where all of my connections are IPv6, but still hampered by my mobile provider (ironically, since IPv6 was generally adopted earlier on mobile in many countries).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Based on how ISPs seem to not get their CGNAT setups right, it's not going away any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As a South African, I have never even seen IPv6. My university has two /16 blocks and no NATing