Comment by cesarb

Comment by cesarb 18 hours ago

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> All your users and potential users can access IPv4-only servers.

Not all servers are user-accessible. For instance, a database server or a NAS server might only be accessed by other servers within the same organization. Using IPv6 between these internal-only servers, instead of RFC 1918 addresses, can simplify things.

ta1243 18 hours ago

And can make things far more complex too. You now need people to understand both ipv4 (for your public facing) and ipv6 (for your internal ones).

Instead you could just choose ipv4 only and reduce a lot of complexity. Sure there are also downsides -- if you're in a large org and are running out of RFC1918 space, or you're rationing it to smaller than /24 networks, that can be a pain (I don't see a benefit of more than 256 host addresses on a subnet as that's already far to large a broadcast domain)

mort96 18 hours ago

Obviously. I thought it was clear enough that I was takling about public-facing servers, since I talked about the capabilities of users' devices.