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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

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.

p1mrx 6y ago
I use https://dns.he.net https://dns.he.net, with an hourly cron job that runs 'curl' to keep the address updated.
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lmm 6y ago
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.
- bzb6 6y ago
  I don’t know about him, but I do, quite frequently.
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  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.
  - fsh 6y ago
    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 6y ago
      I have not seen any routers that do it, my ubiquity amplifi router certainly does not do that.
      - lmm 6y ago
        That's very strange given that every cheapo ISP router I've had does that. How did you confirm that it doesn't?
  - lmm 6y ago
    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.
Miner49er 6y ago
You could use base85
bo1024 6y ago
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...
dboreham 6y ago
If this is a concern you can assign easy to type addresses such as 2001:1868:a106:101::120
jtsiskin 6y ago
When is the last time you had to type an IPv4 address that you couldn’t copy paste?
xaduha 6y ago
Zeroconf for local networks, free dyndns for public addresses.
fulafel 6y ago
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.

p1mrx 6y ago

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

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lmm 6y ago

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.

bzb6 6y ago
I don’t know about him, but I do, quite frequently.
Mediterraneo10 6y ago
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.
- fsh 6y ago
  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 6y ago
    I have not seen any routers that do it, my ubiquity amplifi router certainly does not do that.
    - lmm 6y ago
      That's very strange given that every cheapo ISP router I've had does that. How did you confirm that it doesn't?
- lmm 6y ago
  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.

Miner49er 6y ago

You could use base85

bo1024 6y ago

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...

dboreham 6y ago

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

jtsiskin 6y ago

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

xaduha 6y ago

Zeroconf for local networks, free dyndns for public addresses.

fulafel 6y ago

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.