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> The decision to consume loopback address space has made me even more cynical about IPv6 ever becoming mainstream within my lifetime. Wait what? Are you sayin
by koolba 5y ago
> The decision to consume loopback address space has made me even more cynical about IPv6 ever becoming mainstream within my lifetime.
Wait what? Are you saying that they’re going to allocate the loopback range as v4 addresses?
- zozbot234 5y agoThe proposal is about shrinking the reserved loopback range from 127.0.0.0/8 to 127.0.0.0/16. Everything from 127.1 to 127.255 would then become ordinary IPv4 addresses.
- icedchai 5y agoThis is just a proposal. It will likely never happen. The proposal to open 240/4 (former class-E / reserved IPv4 space) is more feasible.
- ericbarrett 5y agoCan't see this being useful. There are so many devices and so much software with 127.0.0.0/8 baked in that I suspect an address in the proposed range would be less routable (overall) than an IPv6-only endpoint, and remain so for years, even if it became official.
- cesarb 5y ago> Are you saying that they’re going to allocate the loopback range as v4 addresses? Yes, there's a proposal to do so, which was discussed here last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29246420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29246420 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245466).