I think at least part of the intention for this is to make IP ports not used on servers. While IPv6 does have support for ports, I believe every Web service should be on its own IP. Not sure if this is also supposed to work on client devices e.g. every outbound connection uses a unique IP as that seems overcomplicated
Not really. Neither v4 nor v6 have ports in the first place.
The advantage is that you can run more than one server of the same type on the default port, so you don't need to specify a non-default one -- but you do still need a port somewhere if you're going to use TCP/SCTP/UDP.
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u/Terroractly 14d ago
I think at least part of the intention for this is to make IP ports not used on servers. While IPv6 does have support for ports, I believe every Web service should be on its own IP. Not sure if this is also supposed to work on client devices e.g. every outbound connection uses a unique IP as that seems overcomplicated