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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)

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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 80 points 9 months ago (26 children)

All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two... but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn't push such a policy.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 9 months ago (21 children)

A massive swathe of current gen devices don't even support it.

It won't be a month.

Microsoft announce changes much smaller than that 4 years out and still have to give extensions.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That's just embarrassing.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Android doesn’t support DHCPv6 lol

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why not? Isn’t there a dhcpd6 in Linux?

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Initial feature request was in 2012

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Ugh... still? I knew the mail app had shitty support for it and had to create an IPv4-only dns entry for my mail server, I didn't realize the whole system was broken. Ah well, despite being an android user myself I would still place it in the bucket of "not modern" because there's really no excuse for something like this.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Getting plenty of local link and global ipv6 adresses on my pixel 7...

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably via SLAAC. Android doesn’t follow the specifications for getting an individual DHCPv6 address

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Might be.
Honestly I couldnt be bothered with IPv6 and learning all the intricacies. Plus having borderline OCD for symmetry and order on random things and objects makes me actively dislike the whole 50 adresses per device thing.

But for real: Why even have an existing standard and not just use it at all.
This is basically the Pingu meme saying "Well, now I am not doing it. >:("

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