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Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6
netbuzz writes "US military officials are threatening IT suppliers with the loss of military business if they don't use their own wares to start deploying IPv6 on their corporate networks and public-facing Web services immediately. 'We are pressing our vendors in any way we can,' says Ron Broersma, DREN Chief Engineer and a Network Security Manager for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. 'We are competing one off against another. If they want to sell to us, we're asking them: Are you using IPv6 features in your own products on your corporate networks? Is your public Web site IPv6 enabled? We've been doing this to all of the vendors.'"
You want to learn about security. There is nothing good about IPv6-NAT, and security through obscurity isn't security.
Nobody wants to expose all their internal addresses. Period. Which part of that can you dumb fucks not understand? No organisation is going to want to implement that.
Learn DNS. You should only be looking at a IPv6 address if you are a network engineer.
I'm afraid that IP addresses are a very real part of working on networks today, and making them relatively easy to remember is pretty important. Mixing numbers and letters together in hexadecimal (a numbering system humans don't use) was something cobbled together by some tit who had no idea about the practicalities of maintaining a network.