On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:55:15PM +1000, Robert Elz wrote:
> | An unplanned deficit of IPv6: operating without DNS will be much, much
> | harder. (Particularly if you can't type ":" quickly)
> That wasn't unplanned, and isn't a defecit - ridding the world of the
> use of literal IP addresses is one of the things needed to make
> renumbering conceivable (if not by itself make it easy).
Perhaps I was exaggerating for the sake of effect :-)
I feel there will still be a need to type IPv6 addresses in some circumstances
no matter what, unfortunately...
Niall
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