Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  See? If you dont like DNS, you don’t have to use DNS, it’s not so hard.

  And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits you’ll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, then someone would just create a directory that associates each ipv6 with the name of the company using it, so you can search for the easy to remember, human readable name which automa-

      Oh I see what happened here.

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  • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Did you know we have these things called computer disks that can store information

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    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ahh! The files are in the router!l

      Queue jumping up and down like a monkey trying to rip apart my router in order to reach a website

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah, you’re right, I should just look up IP addresses in my NAT table. Maybe I should add comments to it so I know which IP is which.

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      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a hosts file?

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits

    I’m still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It’s right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!

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• infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.

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  • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your perspective makes you believe we’re going in circles. In actuality, we’re going down the drain…

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least they stopped dumping the yellow pages on my porch every year…

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