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Originally Posted by Kushan
I'd say if your DNS is broken, you've got much bigger issues as that'll break a lot more stuff. Unless your entire network is configured to use static IP addresses for everything.
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Sounds like you've never messed around with experimental networks or have had to run a manually assigned DNS.
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I genuinely don't see why this is any different. Not unless you have bothered to memorise the IP addresses of both your hosts, the process is the same - you edit your hosts file to point to a different IP address.
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You seem to be missing the point.
Editing your hosts file takes twice as long each time (as does everything else involving an IP address) because you have to type twice as many letters (not to mention, dots can be entered on the numpad, colons can't).
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Maybe I'm just used to hexadecimal because I use it extensively in my day job. To me, you've got that first part that you'll possibly need to memorise but the rest is up to you to do as you please if you really want. All you end up with is something like this:
2001:0000:3fa5:7B::1
2001:0000:3fa5:7B::2
2001:0000:3fa5:7B::3
etc.
all the way up to...
2001:0000:3fa5:7B::ffff
That's not hard, surely?
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Sure, if you're keen on wasting an entire /64 and 18 billion billion addresses, and enjoy counting to 65536 in your head.
Maybe because I'm just too used to 8-bit decimal math but I find 64+63 easier than adding 16383 + 16384.