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They added 12 more octets. I mean we could have written IPv6 addresses in the old format but I don't think that 42.0.20.80.64.1.192.15.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.113 is ea
by BadBadJellyBean 4mo ago
They added 12 more octets. I mean we could have written IPv6 addresses in the old format but I don't think that
42.0.20.80.64.1.192.15.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.113
is easier to remember than
2a00:1450:4001:c0f::71 (or 2a00:1450:4001:0c0f:0000:0000:0000:0071)
- rvba 4mo agoTell that via phone to your grandmother.
- BadBadJellyBean 4mo agoWhy would I do that?
- mahboi 4mo agoExactly, it'd be horrible. They picked the right format for v6. The problem isn't the space size, it's the entropy. V6 addrs are randomly spread, but if you were using the most significant bytes first, you could have something like 42.0.20.80.64.