[knorker]

When's the last time you gave an IPv4 address over the phone?

I've been in networking for 30 years, worked for multiple multinational ISPs, and the answer is basically never.

[lizknope]

6 months ago.

I let about 10 family and friends connect directly to my home server. My firewall blocks everything except for these 10 IP addresses.

I did get tired of having them figure out their IP address so now I just tell them to access a dummy page page on my external VPS and I check the web server log to see their IP to add to my firewall config.

[knorker]

So in other words IPv4's shorter addresses didn't help at all?

And also it seems like a lot to sacrifice in order to make something marginally more helpful about once or twice a year.

Also why would you say it over the phone? Would you not ask them to email or IM it? I can't count the number of times passwords and names have been misunderstood over the phone. Numbers? Basically always at least one number is misheard.

[adventured]

> When's the last time you gave an IPv4 address over the phone?

1990s, Quake.

[benhurmarcel]

Every time I call tech support at my job so that they can remote in. Granted, it's the IP on the company's network so it can stay IPv4 forever.