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Wait til you’ve got to copy & paste em, or see em comingled with hw addresses
by rusk 6mo ago
Wait til you’ve got to copy & paste em, or see em comingled with hw addresses
- eqvinox 6mo agoWait till you find an application that accepts 1.65793 as an IPv4 address. Or 134744072. $ ping -c 1 1.65793 PING 1.65793 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=1.56 ms --- 1.65793 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.560/1.560/1.560/0.000 ms (by the way, this was way less of a dumb peculiarity back when IPv6 was designed)
- estimator7292 6mo agoI damn near have a stroke every time I try to reason about IPv4 addresses as an integer. But hey, I guess four bytes is four bytes no matter how you read them.
- SkiFire13 6mo agoI'm not disagreeing that's a bad aspect of IPv6, I'm just saying that it's not that big of a issue for its adoption.
- rusk 6mo agoI think it’s one of many that indicates the underlying issues for its adoption. It’s a 90s technology, not as much thought was given about how it would be used.