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Strewth! Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses

Luiz Abdala
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BIOS IPv4...

What I think is gonna happen is that IPv4 will become a back-channel of sorts. Only management purposes, while the thick of it goes IPv6.

My android phones don't give a crap when they latch onto my router with an IPv6 number, but oh boy would I get annoyed if I had to type one of those by hand (I never did, to be honest). And the router itself still needs an IPv4 address anyway for my own subnet.

So, it's easy to type 1.1.1.1 for your DNS eh? Who'd known? Who could've guessed?

It's like booting an old PC that relies on BIOS, then it loads higher-level drivers as it goes...

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