On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:30:00AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I don't get why 'ipv6 address on my vm' matters a whole bunch (*in a world where v4 is still available to you I mean),
It simplifies infrastructure management considerably. Having to balance between "how many subnets will I ever need?" vs "how many machines could I end up with in a subnet?" is something I never thought would become annoying, until I had the opportunity to not worry about it... then it was frustrating to have to go back to it. Not having to use a VPN/NAT/jump box to hit all my infrastructure seems like a small benefit, but it saves having to maintain a VPN/jump box (and all its attendant annoyances). Oh, yeah, never having to faff around with split-horizon DNS management... "Family Guy Tooth Fairy" on YouTube. <grin> In short, there's a whole pile of dodgy hacks we deploy almost without thinking about it, because "that's just how things are done", to work around limitations in IPv4 deployments. Having IPv6 everywhere *within* the infrastructure makes all of those hacks disappear, and like most things we "just do because we have to", you don't realise how much of a PITA they were until they're gone. - Matt -- And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?" They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed." And Jesus replied, "What?" -- Seen on the 'net