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Tangent: why is it four ‘A’s? Why not just “A6”? Is there a technical reason?
by colejohnson66 5y ago
Tangent: why is it four ‘A’s? Why not just “A6”? Is there a technical reason?
- modshatereality 5y agowhat i tell myself is that it's because ipv6 uses 128 bits, vs ipv4 32 bit addresses. so its 4x V4 addresses. Still makes little sense, but at least it's something, heh.
- wahern 5y agoThere was an A6 record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt), but it was rejected (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt) in favor of the original AAAA record type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt). Christian Huitema is listed as an author on both AAAA and A6 RFCs, so maybe they know why the AAAA identifier was originally chosen instead of A6. Unfortunately, Google doesn't provide any "AAAA" hits for their blog at https://huitema.wordpress.com/ https://huitema.wordpress.com/.