Iot isn't what's holding ipv6 back. There are tons of websites and even cloud platforms with totally ipv6-capable hardware and OSes, but the services are v4-only or strongly v4-preferred.
IPv6-lacking hardware and software definitely do exist in the wild, have you seen how some programs from incompetent developers accept only IPv4 addresses in the config files? I think all of us have seen at least one such program.
Often times it's just a matter of using another function to parse the address string. But you are shit outta luck if the program is closed source.
It still is. A lot of IoT and "smart" devices are still dreadfully slow in updating their software.
Iot isn't what's holding ipv6 back. There are tons of websites and even cloud platforms with totally ipv6-capable hardware and OSes, but the services are v4-only or strongly v4-preferred.
IoT was an example, a glaring one at that.
IPv6-lacking hardware and software definitely do exist in the wild, have you seen how some programs from incompetent developers accept only IPv4 addresses in the config files? I think all of us have seen at least one such program.
Often times it's just a matter of using another function to parse the address string. But you are shit outta luck if the program is closed source.
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Tbf there are always bad implementations. Good "smart" devices nowadays should be based on the Matter standard, which natively uses IPv6 addressing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)