[pacamara619]

I see an IPv6 address on a computer screen. I want to connect to it from another computer. Copy pasting doesn't work between computers. Am I supposed to type it letter after letter? Am I supposed to send somehow? What if I don't have internet access on the first computer? Do I need to go find a USB stick so I can transfer a file with the IPv6 address? Am I supposed to set up a DNS server of some kind?

I'll keep my IPv4 thank you very much.

[lmm]

Do you seriously ssh to raw IPv4 addresses? Everywhere I ssh to (including my home server) has a DNS address and that's how I connect to it.

[Mediterraneo10]

Whenever I have got a new Raspberry Pi or PinePhone and connect it to the home network, I always SSH to the raw IP first. (Sure, at some point I’ll configure the router’s DHCP settings to ensure the new device gets a stable IP address, and then I can just use an SSH alias.) I would imagine that this is a very common use case.

[lmm]

I got a new NAS last week and only ever sshed to [hostname].local. Didn't have to configure my router at all. Come to think of it I don't even know (or care) whether I was SSHing via IPv4 or IPv6.

[fsh]

Any decent home router will automatically add the hostname of all DHCP(v6)-configured devices to its DNS service. You shouldn't need raw addresses at all.

[msh]

I have not seen any routers that do it, my ubiquity amplifi router certainly does not do that.

[lmm]

That's very strange given that every cheapo ISP router I've had does that. How did you confirm that it doesn't?

[bzb6]

I don’t know about him, but I do, quite frequently.

[p1mrx]

I use https://dns.he.net, with an hourly cron job that runs 'curl' to keep the address updated.

[bo1024]

I think this is a legitimate downside of IPv6, but a small one in the big scheme of things. Considering in a world of IPv4, most people don't get to have an IP address at all...

[xaduha]

Zeroconf for local networks, free dyndns for public addresses.

[fulafel]

Isn't this a bit dramatic, sounds more like an excuse than a legit reason to stay off v6. It happens extremely rarely and there's only 4x the amount of bits in a IPv6 address so it's not an insurmountable task, and nothing prevents you from concurrently using rfc1918 v4 addresses on a home network.

[dboreham]

If this is a concern you can assign easy to type addresses such as 2001:1868:a106:101::120

[jtsiskin]

When is the last time you had to type an IPv4 address that you couldn’t copy paste?

[Miner49er]

You could use base85