Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

  • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That’s just embarrassing.

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          9 months ago

          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.

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            9 months ago

            Probably via SLAAC. Android doesn’t follow the specifications for getting an individual DHCPv6 address

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 months ago

          this shouldnt be a.burden for users.

          you can simply update a device to support it by default.

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        9 months ago

        My smart TV from two years ago does not support ipv6, and it was fairly high end.

        I was really trying about 5 years ago but there were just so many devices that don’t. My ISP still doesn’t

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            9 months ago

            Vizio 65” OLED. Technically I don’t see anything saying yes or no on IPv6 but I didn’t find any relevant settings on the TV network config, nor do I see any IPv6 address on my router.

            I did see an online post of someone saying similar, except the Chromecast functionality used IPv6

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 months ago

          Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.

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      9 months ago

      thats why dual stack exists. so older devices can still be used on an ipv6 network.

      just give us a functioning ipv6 infrastructure, and the majority of home routers in the marlet will deal with it seamlessly.

      so i want to know whats the damn holdup at this point?? my 3rd world country has it but big US players like carriers and amazon seemingly cant do it.