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Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

storner

Remembering IP's

is about as quaint as remembering phone numbers.

Face it - one of the goals of ANY new IP version is to extend the address range. So no matter how you design the protocol, you end up with more numbers per address. Saying that it is easier to remember 172.217.22.174 than 2a00:1450:400f:802::200e just does not make sense. What you CAN remember is "google.com".

Which is why we invented DNS.

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