That will be a problem for sites that are all hosted on one IP address where the server figures out what site you want by the client's request string.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

Well then you just take whatever you get, it's website roulette.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is this not a majority of them

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

It is.

Of course there are alternatives if you give up using the host header, like routing by URL. But that's difficult when the URL is encrypted, meaning SSL has to be terminated at the proxy.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My home stuff is like this

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats because of how you set it up. If you want individual IP addresses for all your resources, you can get a huge chunk of IPv6 addresses just for yourself. You can get a /48 (65,536) addresses if you set it up with your ISP.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah totally, it's just wrong to say it's not the majority of them.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You do have a point there NaibofTabr@46.4.254.144

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

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