• NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    See? If you don’t like DNS, you don’t have to use DNS, it’s not so hard.

    And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits you’ll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        18 hours ago

        Well, then someone would just create a directory that associates each ipv6 with the name of the company using it, so you can search for the easy to remember, human readable name which automa-

        Oh I see what happened here.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There’s even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses

      • dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Ahh! The files are in the router!l

        Queue jumping up and down like a monkey trying to rip apart my router in order to reach a website

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Ah, you’re right, I should just look up IP addresses in my NAT table. Maybe I should add comments to it so I know which IP is which.

        • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?

          • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            No no no, see, DNS is bad, that’s the whole point. No touchy.

            Can’t have any of that neoliberal stuff, gotta delete the hosts file.