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Re:There’s more than one way to write an IP address by deathanatos on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:12AM (#20392543)
That's the point: because it doesn't matter it provides two representations for the same semantic thing.
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Re:There’s more than one way to write an IP address by jolmg on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:03PM (#20393179)
Well, that's just like IPv4, then. They can still be canonicalized, if you need to compare them.
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