The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it's actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.
In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.
So, really not sure why it's so slow going elsewhere. There's really no reason for it now in 2025.
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gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk · 39 pts · 1y
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/865/
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 1y
Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are
You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Holy shit this is such an insane number
cooopsspace@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.
Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Now I'm curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 1y
We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.
r00ty@kbin.life · 5 pts · 1y
Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
People don't think about it cause my ipv4 still works. Well fuck ourselves when we get to that bridge.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
I don't see it not working any time soon. Just pile on the NATs
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Or by that point they will have created a self scaling system
jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
They will implemented 20 layers of NAT
r00ty@kbin.life · 6 pts · 1y
The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it's actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.
In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.
So, really not sure why it's so slow going elsewhere. There's really no reason for it now in 2025.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
They ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7