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Date: March 11, 2021 02:10AM

The "Yes just connect to 2001:ff21:a983:blah" thing is why DNS was invented.

Nobody has ever said "oh hey check out this website, plus613.. you can access it via any of 2606:4700:3031::ac43:b47f, 2606:4700:3037::6815:53b7, 172.67.180.127, 104.21.83.183"

Yes, NAT works and for most people is fine. To a point it even became a crutch for poor security practices (how many people could secure their home network properly if every device was internet accessible?).

You still ultimately need an entry point to the Internet. Don't want to run services? Cool, CGNAT all the way. It'll be fine for your phone data service forever. Want to play an online game, do p2p or anything else that needs to open inbound ports into your network? No CGNAT for you. Regular NAT with port forwarding, sure. But now you need an IP on the public space and the NAT is at your home level, not the carrier. Just like the other couple of billion people online.

I agree that ipv6 isn't probably the solution everybody was looking for; but it makes sense to a certain degree. And if you can't cope with hex then you have no business complaining about routing topologies, you're in the wrong industry