Reply to post: Re: the Register ... no IPv6

US govt pleads: What's it gonna take to get you people using IPv6?

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: the Register ... no IPv6

"there are loads of applications merrily passing host addresses around as 32-bit integers that cannot as they stand deal with IPv6."

A bunch of them happen to be P2P filesharing protocols. The main reason given for not bothering is "no need, noone uses IPv6"

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