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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized the world was not many years away from running out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses, the numbers needed to identify any device connected to the public internet. Noting booming interest in the internet, the internet community went looking for ways to avoid an IP address shortage that many feared would harm technology adoption and therefore the global economy.

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The most important change from IPv4 to IPv6 was moving from 32-bit to 128-bit addresses, a decision that increased the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion – a 39-digit number. IPv6 was therefore thought to have future-proofed the internet, because nobody could imagine humanity would ever need more than a handful of undecillion IP addresses, never mind the entire range available under IPv6.

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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 58 points 4 days ago (25 children)

This is a hill I'm willing to die on: the reason nobody wants to use ipv6 is the fucking colons.

You don't need to use shift to type in an ipv4 address.

It's fucking stupid and annoying.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Plus you can type a v4 address with one hand on the numeric keypad alone.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

not in europe, we have a colon there

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

If caps lock changed + to : and made the rest of the stuff on the sides of the number pad into a through... (f?) by default, I no shitting, honestly believe we'd see a huge uptick in ipv6 adoption.

It seems like such a small thing but it's the kind of inconvenience that, repeated SO MANY TIMES over the course of a long period will make you want to destroy things.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why would you do this?

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Sometimes you gotta access your router. Especially when it's giving you headaches.

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