Reading up on ipv6
2 deep · digging since may 05
- How the Internet got its addresses (and why they weren't enough)
Vint Cerf chose a 32‑bit IPv4 address space in 1977, assuming 4.3 billion addresses would suffice for an experiment, but the protocol’s longevity exhausted the supply decades later.
- Why didn’t IPv6 work in my home network?
IPv6 stopped working on the author's home network because AdGuard Home's DNS settings had an option checked that disabled all IPv6 DNS queries.