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Comment by cyberax

16 hours ago

IPv6 is dead. Nobody cares about it.

I will believe otherwise once even one US hotel chain supports it. I have _never_ seen a hotel in the US with IPv6 WiFi. Not once.

And I once stayed in a hotel (in Mountain View, CA) that gave out public IPv4 addresses.

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Sesse__  12 hours ago

Last time I was in a California hotel, it had IPv6 just fine. That was 2012. Perhaps you choose the wrong hotels :-)

andix  16 hours ago

Okay, if you say so. Hotel Wifis are known for being on the bleeding edge of technology, and as the main innovator pushing new internet technology. Everything starts with hotel Wifis. /s

  • cyberax  15 hours ago

    Exactly my point. IPv6 failed to reach the "boring, just works" level after 30 years of deployment. So much so that we are now deploying solutions with 10+ years of expected service lifetime that do not support IPv6.

    Meanwhile, CGNAT really solved most issues with IPv4. Yes, even the voice/video chat issues.

    Want another fun example? Try to find a SIP telephony provider in the US that supports IPv6. Go on. I do this exercise about once a year.

    • simoncion  13 hours ago

      > IPv6 failed to reach the "boring, just works" level after 30 years of deployment.

      /me glances over at my phone, which only has an IPv6 address when connected via cellular modem.

      /me thinks back to the decade+ of incredibly boring IPv6 service from the residential ISPs I've used.

      Sure.

      If an ISP wants to provide only IPv6 addresses to CPE, they can set things up so that happens. But if you won't be satisfied until IPv4 no longer passes over the Internet, then you're going to die unhappy about that. The goal for our lifetime is one where every residential site has a global /56 and is behind IPv4 CGN, and servers hosted by commercial entities get to choose whether they assign IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, or both to their servers.

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    • andix  15 hours ago

      I don't get your point. IPv6 is at "boring, just works". The majority of the worlds devices run on it dual-stack and it handles a considerable amount of traffic. A lot of 5G networks run on IPv6 single stack with IPv4 compatibility on top.

      IPv6 is very much alive. And it's so boring and working so well, that you don't even notice it.

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