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> someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long Deeply deeply agree with you. Not whoever was arguing. :) My "
by loxias 4y ago
> someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long
Deeply deeply agree with you. Not whoever was arguing. :) My "dialup" VM in the cloud I use for assorted things has had the same IP for at least 7 years, probably longer. (Thanks Linode!) After a few years, it's honestly not that hard to remember an arbitrary 32bit int. :)
$ w3m -dump http://846235814 # ;)
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoThat's another myth that always iritated me: IPv4 addresses cannot be memorised. I have a few memorised, mainly some TLDs and Internic. With those I can "bootstrap" using DNS/FTP to get any other address. IPv4 are no more difficult to remember than phone numbers. Maybe people are not memorising phone numbers anymore because of mobile phone contacts storage but it does mean we are incapable of doing so. Thank you for stating the truth.
- loxias 4y agoYou're welcome. :) FWIW, I still memorize phone numbers too! I also avoid phone calls like the plague, so in reality it's just a handful of numbers per year.
- bawolff 4y agoLiterally nobody thinks its impossible to memorize 4 8-bit numbers. A bad user experience, sure. > I have a few memorised, mainly some TLDs and Internic. With those I can "bootstrap" using DNS/FTP to get any other address. Pretty sure that's true of 90% of everyone here, since all you really need to memorize is a public dns resolver, and 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1 .1 is a particularly easy address to remember.
- andreareina 4y ago1.1 is even easier to type!
- jftuga 4y agoFor IPv6, you can ping 2600::
- dang 4y agoI love that you are this passionate about static IP addresses. Static IPv4 addresses, to be precise. Illegitimi non carborundum!
- russellbeattie 4y agoI'll save someone else the search. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
- dang 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756677
- russellbeattie 4y agoThat's from a decade ago!! You must have some super secret admin search because the Algolia HN search barfs on the phrase for some reason.
- loxias 4y agoIt's also not a HN specific phrase....
- dang 4y agoIt just stuck in my memory randomly from back then.
- tptacek 4y agoDan is passionate about HN item IDs the way the rest of us are passionate about IPv4 addresses.
- O__________O 4y agoAgree, HN’s search returned nothing, possibly because the terms are not English, but no idea. Try Google too next time if HN’s search doesn’t find what you’re looking for: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Illegitimi+non+carborundum+pg https://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Il...
- bawolff 4y agoObviously a server vm getting renumbered is a rare occurance.