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For a practical demonstration: That's the reason decimal IPs work, too - i.e. http://3520653007/ http://3520653007/ is the same as http://209.216.230.207/ http:
by schroeding 3y ago
For a practical demonstration: That's the reason decimal IPs work, too - i.e. http://3520653007/ http://3520653007/ is the same as http://209.216.230.207/ http://209.216.230.207/ (and both will go to HN) - it's all just nice formating for our human brains.
Nothing would stop us from formatting IPv6 the IPv4 way except the monstrous length of the resulting address.
- TrickyRick 3y agoWow learned something new today. What's interesting is that the decimal representation looks more like a phone number which people would be used to. Interesting that IP addresses as they are written today was the format that won, as a kid before learning how computers worked I always found it weird how 255 was the highest number in each group.
- vel0city 3y agoIts often challenging enough for people to do CIDR subnet calculations in their head when its broken out into octets. I'd have just given up on networking entirely if the standard was to use decimal notation.
- ale42 3y agoYou can even make it funnier by having it look like a floating point number: http://209.14214863/ http://209.14214863/ Or a strange number with two decimal parts: http://209.216.59087/ http://209.216.59087/
- bilekas 3y agoMy whole life I went without knowing decimal IPs were a thing..
- bombcar 3y agoThere's more than just decimal .... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4-addresses/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4...
- patmorgan23 3y agoA 32-bit number is a 32-bit number. Whether you represent it in dot notation, hex or decimal.