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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:48AM (#24846207)
So I'm not saying it's backwards compatible, exactly, but what would you call 64:ff9b::?
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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by mulmen on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:03AM (#24855055)
A reserved gateway address space?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64

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Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:55PM (#24865040)
By embedding the IPv4 address space inside the IPv6 address space.

They are different protocols but they are not disjoint address spaces.

You add 96 bits to the address and boom it's converted.

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