Status of ipv6 in South Africa

[My_King]

Been using IPv6 since my post.

I am yet to see this massive difference you guys are getting.

Emails, speed, Youtube etc are still all the same. Not sure about all this talk and hype.

 

[Gimli_]

Well done MyBB

 

[JerryMungo]

I did too (IPX/SPX), and boy did I believe that was superior to tcp/ip. See where Novel is now. Same story as with blackberry messenger, and see where Blackberry is now. You'll manage, until you are forced to change.

Did I forget to use italics?

 

[Johand]

What's the point though? Like what would the benefit be to the end user? I'm curious.

Because IPv4 is going to start to cost more and more money. E. G. AWS started charging for public IPv4 addresses. Pretty soon you will have to pay extra for public IPv4 addresses because they ran out.

Is there any benefit to giving mobile devices IPv6 addresses anyway? CGNAT works. Customers don't care if they use IPv4 or IPv6. 99.99% of customers just want to be able to watch a video, maybe make a WhatsApp call. No one really cares about what is used as long as they can do what they want to.

To be frank, everyone should be behind CGNAT unless they need access to do port forwarding.

At the end of the day, how many compromised routers are there out there with the classic admin/admin credentials that is just accessible via the internet?

CGNAT is not supposed to be a firewall. And yes it takes some noise away but that won't be a long term solution in any case.

And yes CGNAT works today for most people. But it ain't going to scale forever. And I severely hate the fact that the internet is become hostile to point-to-point connections for end users. Especially in the era of censorship.

Blocklists and other mechanisms become way more difficult if the the potential list of blocked address are 128-bit numbers. Not only because of the vast number of addresses available but also because each address is cheap.