INET6 -- and why I don't use it

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Michael Gratton! 

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:52 +1100; Michael Gratton wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it':

>> * I have never liked how IPv6 denotes its addresses by using colon-
>> delimited hexadecimal strings.
> The glib answer would be "and this is why we have the DNS". Yes it is
> more typing and/or talking, but that's the price to pay for a larger
> address space. Anyway, just do what we do when relating v4 addresses:
> don't pronounce the delimiter.

DNS is for users, but admins deal with plain IP addresses much more
often - imagine a case of DNS failure, for example - and routine failure
will become much more pain in the ass. And dependence on DNS for public
IPSEC keys even if addresses are known - is not good.

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