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At some point it seems like we just need to start passing laws requiring (major) internet services to provide all services on IPv6. Routers could then intercept ipv4 only devices and their dns locally and translate it to ipv6.

Still lame that in 2024 major services like Steam and Quest basically require IPv4.

I want to be able to use the internet without silly things like exhausting a network admins ipv4s.

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WorldMaker1y ago

At least cell phone networks through their standards processes have pushed most consumer networks and consumer hardware to be IPv6 by default ("by only option" in many cases with DNS64 and NAT64 filling in the gaps).

The real pressure we need are to corporate networks. Too many of them think they can use 10.0.0.0/8 forever. Too many of them own giant chunks of public IPv4 space and think they are immune to the address exhaustion. At least the prices for IPv4 addresses are going up at major clouds like AWS and Hetzner. But it still seems too slow of a price rise to hit enough bottom lines that major corporations are feeling the pressure yet.

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