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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

IPv6 was a mistake. We should have just added an addition octet

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would allow for like, 2 trillion devices? Feels like a bandaid, my dude. Next you’re gonna suggest a giant ice cube in the ocean once a year to stop global warming.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So add two more octets:

    Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    IPv6 is not made with internal networks in mind lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You can use a ULA if you want to. That's essentially the IPv6 equivalent of a private IP.

    Why though? Having the same IP for both internal and external solves a bunch of issues. For example, you don't need to use split horizon DNS any more (which is where a host name has a different IP on your internal network vs on the internet). You just need to ensure your firewalls are set up properly, which you should do anyways.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Never claimed it was, please quote me where I said as much

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My dude, you used the 10.xx private IP as an example. Why wouldn’t they assume you were referring to internal networks?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought it was pretty clear with me adding 13.37 that I was making a joke, the earlier post spoke about how just adding one octet would still be too few addresses, so I joked about adding one more octet.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And nuke the hurricanes

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    You could follow this logic and add 2 alphanumeric digits before 4 numeric octets. E.g. xf.192.168.1.1

    This would at least keep it looking like an IP and not a Mac address. Another advantage would be graceful ipv4 handling with a reserved range starting with "ip" like ip.10.10.10.1

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah, great, let's change the fundamental protocol on which all the networks in the world are based. Now two third of the devices in the world crashed because you tried to ping 192.168.0.0.1

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