IPv6 Is A Disaster (but we can fix it)

My IPv6 philosophy:<p>If any &quot;new&quot; computer technology has been around even half as long as IPv6 ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IPv6_deployment#Major_milestones" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IPv6_deployment#Major_mileston...</a> ), with even a tenth of the &quot;you gotta start using this!&quot; push from the Big Boys - and yet still is very widely avoided&#x2F;resisted, and the older-tech alternative commands a price premium due to widespread demand...gosh, that &quot;new&quot; technology must absolutely <i>suck</i>, eh?

Since the main problem was address space, they should&#x27;ve just expanded it. Let everyone keep their old v4 addresses (with 0-padding), focus on the protocol upgrade, and give new users longer addresses for cheaper. You wouldn&#x27;t even need DNS changes initially. Instead, v6 became a whole new thing with additional goals like removing NAT (which I&#x27;m not even convinced is a good idea), so of course there&#x27;d be way more friction.<p>Like, I said this elsewhere, Cloudflare public DNS is 1.1.1.1. If I switch to ipv6, I get to use 2606:4700:4700::1111. You telling me that&#x27;s an upgrade?

For an IPv6 advocate, this guy sure set up a lot of NAT. And while he claimed he&#x27;s going IPv6-only, he set up public access via IPv4. That won&#x27;t convince anyone to switch or upgrade.<p>I understand that he&#x27;s building a usable service and just trying to git &#x27;er done, but it&#x27;s a lot of hacks, so I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re documented in this here blogpost.<p>I hope that he can continually probe the edges to find out when real IPv6 support becomes available, and can gradually remove the hacks for a purer experience.

It depends on a country. I was at places where IPv4 is the default choice. I also visited countries where IPv6 is a standard practice. As a consumer, you really do not see much difference, IPv6 works surprisingly well if not better than IPv4.

I think if every hosting company that charges for ipv4 addresses offered complementary (or at least much cheaper) NAT64, then paying for an ipv4 would be only needed for ingress traffic, and ipv4 addresses could be dropped for most VMs.

I have Verizon FIOS and my area STILL does not have ipv6.

&quot;The writing is on the wall&quot; because cloud providers charge <i>a few dollars</i> a month for IPv4?

to be short: most stuff didn&#x27;t work because they cling to their ipv4 address.