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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

See? If you don't like DNS, you don't have to use DNS, it's not so hard.

And IPv6 won't be that much harder, it's only... uh... 32 hex digits you'll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits

I'm still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It's right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!

[–] gedaliyah 4 points 1 week ago

Well, then someone would just create a directory that associates each ipv6 with the name of the company using it, so you can search for the easy to remember, human readable name which automa-

Oh I see what happened here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There's even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ahh! The files are in the router!l

Queue jumping up and down like a monkey trying to rip apart my router in order to reach a website

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, you're right, I should just look up IP addresses in my NAT table. Maybe I should add comments to it so I know which IP is which.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yep literally this. don't most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No no no, see, DNS is bad, that's the whole point. No touchy.

Can't have any of that neoliberal stuff, gotta delete the hosts file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Your perspective makes you believe we're going in circles. In actuality, we're going down the drain...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

At least they stopped dumping the yellow pages on my porch every year...