• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    18 hours ago

    I mean… OK then just remember the IP addresses of the sites you use and don’t use the domain names?

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      17 hours ago

      That will be a problem for sites that are all hosted on one IP address where the server figures out what site you want by the client’s request string.

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            10 hours ago

            Thats because of how you set it up. If you want individual IP addresses for all your resources, you can get a huge chunk of IPv6 addresses just for yourself. You can get a /48 (65,536) addresses if you set it up with your ISP.

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          16 hours ago

          It is.

          Of course there are alternatives if you give up using the host header, like routing by URL. But that’s difficult when the URL is encrypted, meaning SSL has to be terminated at the proxy.

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        10 hours 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.

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          9 hours 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

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            7 hours 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.

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              3 hours ago

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

      • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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        15 hours ago

        30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.