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0 pointsdheera3y ago0 comments

And so now I have to stick stickers on every light bulb with a huge address on it and then get up on a chair several times per bulb while I transfer chunks of its address from the sticker to my terminal?

The reality is with IPv4 I can memorize all of the IPv4 addresses of every light bulb, every robot, every thermostat, every plant watering device in my residence, and I can hammer out CURL commands to control everything almost from muscle memory in the event of a DNS hijacking.

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xnyanta3y ago

Why do you need stickers? You can just log into your router/switch and inspect the arp/nd table. You could just just use DNS records the first time you set a widget up and never have to remember an address again. Your router likely already does this automatically for you in IPv4 land via the DHCP server's database. The reality is that remembering IP addresses to access things has always been a band-aid fix. When's the last time you typed the IP address of hacker news into your browser's url bar? Using link-local addresses is usually a last-resort kind of scenario where you're glad it exists to save you some headache.

dheeraOP3y ago

> router likely already does this automatically

Yes but my phone hijacked all the LAN DNS when I plugged it into a USB port for tethering when Comcrap went down for a few hours

Also separately, when Comcrap is working, my phone on Wi-Fi refuses to ever use the router DNS, http://xyz.local addresses are only available on desktops/laptops and not phones, therefore IPv4 addresses it is when trying to visit a LAN site on a phone.

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