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by mschuster91 1002 days ago
Because there's a lot of shit that still doesn't work well with IPv4. Logging is one good example - a lot of software that uses its database for event logs has the database column for remote_ip defined as VARCHAR(15), you can guess the rest of what happens when deploying that with IPv6 enabled.
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These things take time. I mean, it's only been 25+ years since the first IPv6 RFC was released...