On Monday, 29 April 2024 21:28:35 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: > >> Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O > > > > There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you > > can > > just tell your firewall not to allow any IPv6 packets in or out at all. > > When I said a lot of typing, I was thinking about if one has to use IPv6 > to ssh into a rig. As it is here, ssh dale@10.0.0.6 is it. Now replace > that IP with a IPv6 address. I'm hoping for a copy and paste option or > tab completion would be nice. Let's not even get into the increased > odds of a typo. After all, one wrong character, no worky. :/ > > Given that we running out of IPv4 tho, IPv6 it is. Something had to > change. I guess IPv6 was the best long term option. Still, gonna be a > head scratcher for some of us. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
If we're talking about connecting regularly to the same IP you can set it up as an alias in your ~/.ssh/config and not have to invoke IP addresses on the CLI at all.
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