• renzev@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Agreed. Though I wonder if ipv6 will ever displace ipv4 in things like virtual networks (docker, vpn, etc.) where there’s no need for a bigger address space

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      5 months ago

      I hope so. I don’t want to manage two different address spaces in my head. I prefer if one standard is just the standard.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      5 months ago

      Yes, because Docker becomes significantly more powerful once every container has a different publicly addressable IP.

      Altough IPv6 support in Docker is still lacking in some areas right now, so add that to the long list of IPv6 migration todos.

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      5 months ago

      I wish everything would just default to a unix socket in /run, with only nginx managing http and stream reverse sockets.

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        Wait, but if you have, for example an HTTP API and you listen on a unix socket in for incoming requests, this is quite a lot of overhead in parsing HTTP headers. It is not much, but also cannot be the recommended solution on how to do network applications.

        • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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          Replacing a TCP socket with a UNIX socket doesn’t affect the amount of headers you have to parse.