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Dagger2 on Dec 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable

You don't need a fixed prefix to get most of the benefits of v6.

DNS is a thing.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on Dec 7, 2022 [–]

I can do dynamic DNS on v4 too.

It also complicates firewalls, because now they need to deal with the prefix switching on them and updating their rules to match. As I recall this was only recently added to pfSense.

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