Posted by Aaronmacaron 1 day ago
Cloud computing doesn't mitigate IPv4 issues, it just moves it around. The big cloud providers buy up any IPv4 space they can, leaving less for everyone else. The difference is that they then get to collect rent, by the hour, on any IPs their customers use.
Load balancers...yeah, actually that is a valid approach to reduce IPv4 use, assuming you mean the "reverse proxy" variety of load balancer. Cloudflare's proxy service is doing exactly this, on a pretty huge scale. (CLoudflare can then send the traffic on to an IPv6-only server, regardless of the client's protocol.) The downside is, like cloud, consolidating a lot of infrastructure into the hands of a small number of companies.
Does it mean we better put our chips on IPv8?
I'm suggesting moving on to IPvNN which requires device and ISP forced guarantees that the originator is not under the effect nor the lack of any medication or other substance, not being coerced and not using non-human assistants in content creation.
I guess we both agree that both humor and sarcasm are difficult to convey on the internet and LLMs do not make the job any easier :-)
My company is ipv4 still, and some customers are having issues with ipv6 only connections.
Also we log the ip addresses, and that's only in ipv4.