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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Sounds like you've never messed around with experimental networks or have had to run a manually assigned DNS.
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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Is that really a massive issue? Really? That you have to copy/paste a slightly longer address? Hell if you're doing that a lot, you're just going to comment one out anyway. Besides, what happened to testing sites on Test domains?
https://beta.mysite.com works just as well.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
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.
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Again, you're treating IPv6 like IPv4, where wasting addresses is a terrible thing because there's so few to go around. That's the beauty of IPv6, you can waste billions and billions of addresses and still have plenty to spare. You can segregate your network nicely, logically.
And hey, if you have a problem with 2001:0000:3fa5:7B::3, then why not 2001:0000:3fa5:7B:7B::3 or 2001:0000:3fa5:7B:7B:7B:3.
You can have something like this -
2001:0000:3fa5:7B:1::3 // Servers
2001:0000:3fa5:7B:2::3 // VoIP
2001:0000:3fa5:7B:A::3 // Desktops
// etc.
You know, if you want. It's easy.