30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.
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BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 2 months agoYou do have a point there NaibofTabr@46.4.254.144
infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Your perspective makes you believe we’re going in circles. In actuality, we’re going down the drain…
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
At least they stopped dumping the yellow pages on my porch every year…
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Did you know we have these things called computer disks that can store information
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 months 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
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months 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.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 months ago
yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a hosts file?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I’m still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It’s right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!