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It's the chicken and the egg problem. Right now I can't name a single US consumer ISP using IPv6. If I update my edge routers, all my firewalls, dns, and all my servers to support IPv6, what have I gained? No users will use it to access my site, and now I'll have to use unmemorably long addresses in all my equipment. No thank you..

Right now, for me and many others, IPv4 addresses running out is someone else's problem. It doesn't affect me, so I feel no need to switch until I'm forced.

Am I missing something? Is there some cool new feature of IPv6 that's worth upgrading for?



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