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0 pointsanon410y ago0 comments

Or, you know, when your friend is hosting a StarCraft game over TCP and you have to write their address. People don't have DNS addresses and even if your ISP has a mapping by default (usually to addr-x-y-z-w.isp.com), the OS doesn't show it.

On the other hand, DNS could fix this - just have a TLD of ip6 and have it resolve all the examples in the article. It would require no changes to current software and will work transparently. I.e. you'd enter http://deadbeef.ip6:1234 and when the ip6 TLD servers receive a request for deadbeef.ip6, they will reply with dead:beef:0:0:0:0:0:0. Similarly with deadbeef.1.ip6 and so on. You could easily implement this in the OS too without much hassle and not even need servers on the internet to do it.

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lolc10y ago· 1 in thread

Using a special TLD for IP6 addressing is the sanest proposal I've read here so far. Add the ip4 TLD while we're at it.

I just had this dystopian vision where a non-profit operated .ip6 to work as discussed then went defunct and a domain-grabber (named Network Solutions) bought it. Everybody scrambled to patch their recursive resolvers real fast :-)

anon4OP10y ago

If it catches on, I expect it to be built into every dns library so it does not even hit the network. The idea of grabbing the TLD and then redirecting to a middleman that inserts ads sounds quite profitable though...

blackorzar10y ago

I see this idea like a really cool one.

http://deadbeed.ip6 would help to start using it.

If the local dns could be setup to autotranslate them to ip6 could help this notation to gain traction

icebraining10y ago

Hosting Starcraft on a port open to the Internet sounds like a terrible idea. If you actually want to host a public server, then getting a dynamic domain name is not hard. If it's a private game, you're better off using a VPN, over which a broadcast discovery protocol can be used.

In any case, if you really need to, what's the problem with copy-pasting an address?

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