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> in the IPv6 world there's no technical reason you can't just let every service bind a different IP address.

I'm not a networking expert, but is that true that you can create multiple ip's for a single device using ipv6? Sounds like it would end up very messy.



You can do that, provided that the network routes multiple IPs (or a whole prefix) to the device. It tends to be pretty messy keeping track of all the addresses in the OS configuration, but that's an opportunity for OSes to get better.


> It tends to be pretty messy keeping track of all the addresses in the OS configuration, but that's an opportunity for OSes to get better.

Seems like an odd thing to do, create bizarre (unnecessary?) complexities simply as an opportunity for OSes to get better.

Are there any advantages to doing it that way?




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