Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by birdyrooster on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:24PM (#21380565)

You remember the prefixes (e.g. 1234:5:6:7::/48) you care most about and the hexadecimal nature of the address makes them fairly memorable and compact. You can prefix addresses with a-f to hint at usage and even spell words. Unused octets can be omitted thanks to the nature of the ::.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by ATsch on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:53PM (#21384139)

Yes, this is important to remember.

While automatically assigned IPv6 addresses will usually use the full 128 bits (last half is random), manually assigned addresses usually don't. So e.g. one of my servers is 2a00:1234:8::10, which is pretty easy to remember. There's going to be no way around memorizing the first two or three colon sections, which are assigned to you, but the last part is going to be as easy to remember as you make it.

2600::1, owned by sprint, which is the shortest pingable IP address I know, is exactly as long as 1.1.1.1, the shortest possible IPv4 address.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by U8dcN7vx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:13AM (#21384205)

I raise you ...

$ ping 1.1 PING 1.1 (1.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 1.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=26.0 ms ...

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by chmod775 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:23AM (#21384230)

I raise you ...

    $ ping 0
    PING 0 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

Note that this may default to 0.0.0.0 instead depending on what you're running, which is technically the correct interpretation. I'm not sure who is doing the shenanigans here.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by U8dcN7vx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:28AM (#21384246)

Touche!

All zeros is self, which is to say generally the same as 127.1.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by ATsch on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:58AM (#21384551)

Neat, I didn't know about this. If we relax the restrictions on being publicly routed, I can raise you

    $ ping ::
    PING ::(::) 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms

though, shorter by one character.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by shepardrtc on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:07AM (#21387971)

People aren't having trouble remembering because they're not doing it right, they're having trouble because it wasn't designed right. And by "right", I mean designed for the average human to remember.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by Dagger2 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:59PM (#21392550)

It's designed to go into DNS, so that computers can handle the remembering. This is the right design for the average human.

It's also designed so that the IPs themselves don't need to be particularly hard to remember. Compare 2001:db8:42:1::5 to 203.0.113.42+192.168.1.5 -- the v6 address is shorter than the pair of addresses you inevitably end up with in v4. If you're one of the tiny percentage of humans that actually do need to remember a v6 address, then pick an address like that rather than something long and hard to remember.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by ipython on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:52PM (#21383035)

This is exactly how I do it. Not sure why you’re downvoted.

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