Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
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.
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.
Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That’s just embarrassing.
Android doesn’t support DHCPv6 lol
Getting plenty of local link and global ipv6 adresses on my pixel 7…
Probably via SLAAC. Android doesn’t follow the specifications for getting an individual DHCPv6 address
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. >:(”
Why not? Isn’t there a dhcpd6 in Linux?
Initial feature request was in 2012
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.
Wasn’t 64 bit adoption largely driven by Microsoft deciding they weren’t making a 32 bit version of their next Windows at one point? It seems it might take something similar.
Microsoft supports 32 bit processors still with windows 10. They died out because it was becoming clear that 4GB of memory wasn’t going to be enough for applications, and the low margins on budget chips didn’t warrant maintaining 32 bit designs when the 64 bit versions would do and could still run the 32 bit software.
No, 64 bit was widely adopted long before windows cut support. Keep in mind a 32 bit OS can only use ~4GB of ram, and most systems have been shipping with more than that for many years now.
Like what though?
The last thing I have that doesn’t support ipv4 from the hardware level is my Nintendo DS.
Everything else has the hardware capability, it’s just never used or enabled in the software by default.
…and most people who own those devices have never heard of IPv6 and don’t know how to enable it. They just won’t be able to access your website. If Amazon dropped support for IPv4, there wouldn’t be anything i’d be able to do to deal with the fall out. I’m not going to send a technician to every single home of every customer I have. What I could (and would) do is move all my stuff off Amazon.
this shouldnt be a.burden for users.
you can simply update a device to support it by default.
It would be a good start if AWS supported IPv6 on all their services in the first place. Everything enters through CloudFront so I don’t need any IPv4. But AWS’s own services don’t have IPv6 in every region, so I still have to provision NAT gateways.
Yikes. I get free IPv6 for my servers through Hurricane Electric since my ISP doesn’t provide it yet, I wonder if their service also works on AWS? I mean come on, if someone like Comcast can figure it out, why is it so hard for a major player like Amazon?