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I'm a sysadmin and find IPv6 easier to use. You can easily make short ipv6 address just by having a larger prefix and then omitting zeroes (with `::`) in your h
by preisschild 3y ago
I'm a sysadmin and find IPv6 easier to use. You can easily make short ipv6 address just by having a larger prefix and then omitting zeroes (with `::`) in your host-part that you don't need.
Take `2001:db8::1`. Here `2001:db:8` would be your network address and `1` your host-id. For example, a router. `2001:db8:2` could be a server and so on.
- jl6 3y agoI don't imagine it's easy to get a global /32, so do you mean for purely local networks? In which case why not use 1::1?
- preisschild 3y agoIts easy to get a global /44 - /48, which is not that much more.
- magicalhippo 3y agoThe prefix I get from my ISP is a complete 56 bits, more or less. Thus even if I use ::1 on the inside, it's very long and tedious to type. ULAs are better but are still supposed to be 48 bits[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address