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[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

So add two more octets:

Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

IPv6 is not made with internal networks in mind lol

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’m only pointing out why the other poster would make the assumption you were referring to an internal network. Do with it what you will.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Hurricanes cannot cross the equator. The equator is an imaginary line, and hence has zero mass. We can end every hurricane using zero point zero energy (0.0).

[-] alienzx@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tilcica@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

that WOULD be quite funny for the first second or 2....

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 year ago

Could have sped up adoption significantly.

[-] snor10@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They played us for absolute fools!

[-] lnee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

IPv

heared of ipv5?

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Plus the MAC address

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