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by billpg 7mo ago
Until you would happily deploy a service on IPv6 only, I suggest that you're still dependent on IPv4.
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by billpg 7mo ago
You'd happily deploy a website for use by the general public on IPv6-only?
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by billpg 7mo ago
Your local machine isn't on the IPv4 internet if it doesn't have a globally routable IPv4 address. Your home router that sits on the end of a single IPv4 address would need to know about IPv4x, but in this parallel world you'
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by billpg 7mo ago
If it does that's great, but why couldn't I connect to IPv6-only services back when my ISP was IPv4 only?
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by billpg 7mo ago
This wasn't a proposal, but an alternate history. The world where the people who wished for IPv4 but with extra address space get their way. By the end I come down on being happy with we're in the IPv6 world, but wishing interoper
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by billpg 7mo ago
Thanks for reading and commenting everyone! Note though that I'm not proposing IPv4x as something we should work towards now. Indeed, I come down on the side of being happy that we're in the IPv6 world instead of this alternative
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by billpg 7mo ago
Interesting. Who deploys and maintains the gateway?
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by billpg 7mo ago
The central idea is that a IPv4x packet is still a globally routable IPv4 packet. The extra stuff all goes in the body of the packet.
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by billpg 7mo ago
Essentially.I imagined this hypothetical happening decades ago when there were still a few /8s unallocated. I suggested that those would be set aside for IPv4x only.
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by billpg 7mo ago
"IPv6 does that." Are you sure about that? Until a few years ago my residential ISP was IPv4 only. I definitely couldn't connect to an IPv6-only service back then.
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by billpg 7mo ago
No, in this hypothetical, routers that don't know about IPv4x will still route based on the top 32 bits of the address which is still in the same place for IPv4 packets. If your machine on your desk and the other machine across the int
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The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved(owl.billpg.com)
95 points by billpg 7mo ago|237 comments
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"Too Clever by Half" (Thanks HN)(owl.billpg.com)
2 points by billpg 7mo ago|1 comments
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The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved(owl.billpg.com)
1 points by billpg 8mo ago|0 comments
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Python's Truthiness: A Code Smell Worth Sniffing(owl.billpg.com)
1 points by billpg 8mo ago|0 comments
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by billpg 9mo ago
Could this be a the basis of an independent implementation of AmigaOS? At the moment, (I think) you still need a licensed copy of Commodore's OS to run an emulator.
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by billpg 10mo ago
What's the use case of a stream cipher when AES can be turned into a stream with a little XOR-ing?
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by billpg 10mo ago
Let's stop calling it "JavaScript" entirely. "JS" is right there.
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Sixgate – IPv6 Without Leaving Anyone Behind(owl.billpg.com)
4 points by billpg 11mo ago|0 comments
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Python's Truthiness: A Code Smell Worth Sniffing(owl.billpg.com)
2 points by billpg 11mo ago|0 comments
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The Expanding Universe of Unicode(owl.billpg.com)
2 points by billpg 11mo ago|0 comments
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by billpg 11mo ago
I once (legally) bought a second hand laptop with a big anti-theft sticker on it. The sticker warned that removing it would leave a big "STOLEN!" mark, which it did. I covered it up with a new sticker.
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by billpg 11mo ago
Thank you. I've written back. (Short version of email: Yes please!)
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Sixgate – IPv6 Without Leaving Anyone Behind(owl.billpg.com)
2 points by billpg 11mo ago|0 comments
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by billpg 11mo ago
I was once on a bus and I could hear some teenagers talking. One asked a girl for her phone number and she told him a number starting with 07709, the UK's "555". I only knew that because a Doctor Who episode had recently used
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by billpg 11mo ago
If I end up going to London myself, my intention was to scan Wilf's column of those eight issues for archive-org. Two other HN users have offered to go look for me and I can't really ask them to do extra work to do if they're
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by billpg 11mo ago
Thanks very much. That’s a generous offer. If you do find time to check, I’d be grateful. I’ve narrowed it down to eight issues that aren’t in the archive.org scans. My submission was mentioned near the end of Wilf’s column, just before the
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by billpg 11mo ago
Hello there! I had sent this HN submission in a few weeks ago and I thought it had disappeared off the "new" page with only one comment. I came back on today and happened to notice some activity and HN had reposted my piece five d
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by billpg 1y ago
PS. Link to the scans: https://archive.org/details/wpw-1991-1992-1993/WPW-1991-01/
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Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
125 points by billpg 1y ago|47 comments

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