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People still working in IT, thoughts on IPv6? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Now currently I'm not in the workforce, but in the past from my work experience, apprenticeship and temp roles, I've always seen ipv4 and not ipv6!

Hell, my ISP seems to exclusively use ipv4 (unless behind nats they're using ipv6)

Do you think a lot of people stick with the earlier iteration because they have been so familiar with it for a long time?

When you look at a ipv6, it looks menacing with a long string of letters and numbers compared to the more simpler often.

I am aware the IP bucket has gone dry and they gotta bring in a new IP cow with a even bigger bucket, but what do you think? Do you yourself or your firm use ipv4 or 6?

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[–] evanstucker@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I enjoyed getting the IPv6 certification from Hurricane Electric. Everyone should learn about it! https://ipv6.he.net/

[–] tc4m@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Off topic, but I love Hurricane Electric's website. Simple, but not ugly. Straight to the point. I find it quite charming in contrast to the hyper designed, but barely functional sites of other companies. (fuck you HPE)

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Also don't forget that if you're stuck on an old network, as long as your router replies to pings you can get a tunnel for a /48 and a bunch of /64s for free. That's 65536 networks of 2^64 IP addresses to play around with. Make your own traceroute puns! Experiment with routers in virtual machines using real addresses! Make your IP address end in dead:beef:cafe!

And if you complete the quiz, they'll send you a free t-shirt. That's pretty cool.

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 2 points 2 days ago

I still have my IPv6 sage shirt somewhere.