[gerdesj]

SLAAC is a core component of IPv6 - it's how a machine determines an address on a subnet without DHCPv6. Basically:

"yoohoo - where am I?"

"You are on 2001:1001:1001:f0d::/64. My name is [ipv6] and I am a router and for some odd reason, I won't tell you where DNS comes from because ... stupid design"

"Cool, I'll fiddle in my drawers and play with my MAC address and create a really long number that starts 2001:etc. I'll also create a few other addresses randomly to hide my private parts (which is a waste of time but looks good - lol)"

No idea what you are on about wrt EUI-64 being tied to SLAAC. Why not have a go at it instead of pontificating?

Having used IPv6 in anger for several years now, it is a bit different but it is actually quite beautiful at times. It does enforce decent DNS and who here has not said "its DNS"?

[hotpotamus]

I've set up SLAAC before but it's not something I do often. Frankly I'm still on the fence of whether or not v6 was a good idea. Fiddling in the drawers with the MAC address is EUI-64 though, and I was under the impression that the SLAAC "client" doesn't broadcast any kind of discovery message - it just listens to the network to determine the prefix, and then generates the EUI-64 portion as its host address since it should be globally unique as it's based on its MAC address.

Like I said, I don't touch v6 much and I'm pretty surprised at how far we've made it past v4 allocations drying up and everything still seems to work.

[gerdesj]

You'll be fine for a long time. IPv6 is not quite right but not for the reasons that you'll usually see on HN/Reddit/whatevs.

It does work pretty well already but I put it rather below the significance of say global warming as a thing to really worry about.

Give it a go if you get a prefix from your ISP. It's worth a play.

This sort of thing takes 50+ years to work. You have to think like an Engineer with a lot of time to play with. The internet is everywhere, it doesn't change overnight.