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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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