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pchitescu |
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Thu, January 25, 2001 at 9:17 PM GMT (Fri, January 26, 2001 at 12:17 AM EEST) |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer V5.5 using Windows 98 |
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5 |
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Directly using IPv6 addresses : a very bad idea |
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| I think it's a very bad idea to manually enter IP addresses anyway and especially
IPv6 which hold 4 time more bits than IPv6. The probability of error is much higher-
what if the address had several kilobits ? Would you enter it by hand too ? Remember
the Domain Name System ? The whole point is to hide the IP address under a friendly
name. For a computer it doesn't matter how many bits an address has. And with some
new ideas like Dynamic DNS we can assign names to IP addresses even for non-permanently
connected hosts. What I would like is to have IPv6 supported and deployed as the
standards exist for years. Unfortunately the large mass of Windows 9x or ME computers
do not support IPv6.
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