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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/rof-dog on 2025-05-31 13:05:10+00:00.

I’ve helped a lot of my mates with their homelabs in the past, and all of them were IPv4 first with IPv6 enabled on some VLANs (usually just the end-user network).

I get that IPv4 addresses are nice and easy to type, but really you shouldn’t be using IP literals. All of my friends have domain names, too.

In my homelab, it’s quite the opposite. I’ve been on the IPv6 kick since the mid 2010s when my ISP rolled it out. Most VLANs are IPv6 only, and I rarely add IPv4 addresses to DNS. Is anyone else the same?