I found this a very interesting look at the current tools and techniques available to reduce reliance on IPv4 and NATs. While I don’t foresee IPv4 going away any time soon, and I’m not sure IPv6 is an improvement per se, I do like to tinker with IPv6 in the home LAN.

(Edit: to be clear, I am not the author.)

  • encodedOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I wish I could say you were missing out, but really… You’re not.

    I’ve been lucky enough to have IPv6 dual-stack from my ISP for … almost 10 years now. Aside from me having fun playing with it, it hasn’t really improved anything. Latencies aren’t noticeably any faster. It doesn’t give me access to anything that isn’t on the IPv4 Internet (at least nothing that I’m cool enough to know about).

    Though that said, after reading this, I’m now tempted to implement some of the “mostly-IPv6” things the author tried. But again, it’d just be for fun, it won’t provide me with a single benefit or capability that I have right now.