On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:14:07 -0700, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Marcin Cieslak
<saper(a)saper.info> wrote:
You *DON'T* want to
renumber your whole home network every time your ISP changes your IPv6
prefix.
If only they had some service which converted easy to remember names
into IPv6 addresses.....
You don't want to put DNS names inside of firewall rules. Some won't let
you, and for others it's risky... ever read a manual?
http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames
IPv6 uses global addresses not internal ones (and for good reason). So if
your prefix changes you have to rewrite firewall rules.
Forcing local networks using local addresses to host local data remotely
is also ridiculous.
And just to sum it up. DNS != Automatic renumbering. Local network things
like firewall config will not necessarily constantly check DNS for
changes. Even if you do use DNS programs are liable to keep using the same
IP addresses even after your network is renumbered.
Just because
some people got away with the stuff they do on the Internet
because their ISP changes their IPv4 address every so and then does
not mean that dynamic IPv4 address provides *any* privacy.
A dynamic address (IPv4 or IPv6) generally provides *some* privacy
above a static one. Not a lot, especially not without taking other
measures, but some.
The whole point of IPv6 is to give the choice not
to use external
providers - you become part of the "cloud", not just a dumb consumer.
I didn't realize that was the whole point of IPv6.
In any case, I'd say most Internet users *want* to be treated as a
dumb consumer, and not become part of the cloud.
Yes, there's a small portion of the population that wants to run their
own webserver and own email server and maintain an always on computer,
constantly updated with the latest security fixes, sitting in their
DMZ. But not more than 4,294,967,296 of them.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]