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    TranscriptFalse meme image that says "bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable." with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.

    Source: https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032302416832519

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    [–] AppleStrudel@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

    No. But if this is true (which I do doubt completely, Linus can't be this dumb to singlehandedly cripple his OS), this should also affect every intranet address.

    The current description of IPv6 intranet is just ridiculously dumb anyway. Should I want to ssh into a local device, I'll have to type in for example fd9e:9aa0:c00f:1::a, with only the fd part being the same for all intranets rather than 192.168.1.10 with 192.168 generally always being the same.

    Edit: wait... Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that'll work, but why the even...

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I don't think I've entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using <hostname>.local thanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for... 20 years I think?

    [–] AppleStrudel@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

    Cool. My mesh doesn't have that though (I think?). But admittedly that's a tangent. If IPv4 ever depreciates, I'll have to toss my mesh anyway.

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

    Pihole automatically adds clients that get an IP from its DHCP component. All my clients are server.local, client1.local, tv1.local, etc. So I can use their DNS name everywhere.

    Even if it don't want to use pihole(why?), you can edit the SSH config and add addresses for each host so you can just type

    ssh server
    [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    wait... Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that'll work, but why the even...

    What do you mean by that? I'm pretty sure people are telling you to run a DNS server and set up entries for any clients you want to regularly connect to.

    with only the fd part being the same for all intranets

    Why?

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

    I think ipv4 for internal networks is fine.

    [–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    if this is true (which I do doubt completely

    I really want to believe that you doubt it completely.

    [–] AppleStrudel@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, I really have put too much time into replying to all these based solely on a hypothetical. But I did learn something from all these comments (technical something, not me being an idiot), so it's all good.