Comment by lazystar
4 days ago
> you do expose what used to be private addresses with IPv6
its been 10 years since i first rolled my eyes at ipv6 due to this problem. youre saying its still a problem, over a decade later? ugh. bring on ipv7 or ipv8.
4 days ago
> you do expose what used to be private addresses with IPv6
its been 10 years since i first rolled my eyes at ipv6 due to this problem. youre saying its still a problem, over a decade later? ugh. bring on ipv7 or ipv8.
Not really, privacy extensions are usually on by default, at least on Windows and Linux. This means temporary ipv6 addresses will be used for outbound traffic and rotated regularly (usually every 24h by default, if I'm not mistaken). And if you're worried about tracking, we have lost this war ages ago, ipv6 wouldn't meaningfully change that.
> its been 10 years since i first rolled my eyes at ipv6 due to this problem.
You might find this comment [0] informative.
You might also be interested to know that the ULA space was defined and reserved in October, 2005. If you of ten years ago had done a little more research, you'd have discovered that the problem had been solved ~ten years prior.
[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468426>