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Because its an over-engineered pile of shit. The only thing required was an increase in the address space, but we got IPv6 instead, which everyone sane resists
by ta2478367 4y ago
Because its an over-engineered pile of shit. The only thing required was an increase in the address space, but we got IPv6 instead, which everyone sane resists to this day. Defaulting to hex addressing only a sheltered engineer would do.
- Dagger2 4y agoIt's not very over-engineered; most parts of it work the same as v4 does, just with bigger addresses. Writing the addresses in hex is because doing so is easier. It lines up with the binary better which makes subnetting easier, and do you really want to deal with addresses that look like "32.1.13.184.133.163.0.0.0.0.138.46.3.112.115.52"?