Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine or advice forum.
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
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7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
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I had an old school friend chastise me for the lack of ipv6 in my home.hosted stuff just this week..
I want to, but its effort, I'm not currently feeling any pain only being on ipv4, and since I'm on a static IP presently, I'm not feeling like I would be gaining much out of a switch.
This post however makes me feel super slack though: if dull men are migrating to v6, then maybe that makes me a Luddite / carmudgeon... 😱
I only did it cos I had to. Cgnat etc. It is also far better for routing and improves throughput by reducing congestion. See apalrd video on ipv6 that explains it well.
Ipv6 is about 36% of the internet so us dull men really should start getting with the program. Also each endpoint that supports ipv6 make a disproportionate effect on increasing that number.
I turned it on about 10 years ago and without realising accidentally routed my internal home network. My IDS went nuts, I realised mistake, I rolled the change back, and haven't gotten around to it since.
I think for me, the reliance on DNS makes my anxious... As is, my home net is overly complex (32+ discreet screened VLANS with vlsm, multiple discreet segregated WiFi networks, etc, etc.. (don't ask why, "it's complicated")) and being able to navigate it when DNS breaks is easy.. Remembering ipv6 internal addresses is something I'll likely never be able to do...
I used to be a comms / security engineer so I could justify spending time during the day fixing stuff in my "lab" when it broke. These days, not so much...
So for me it is more "fear of the unknown" and "having time to work through the kinks.."
But with DMC here now pushing me on, perhaps it is time to migrate a pilot network segment and get over myself...