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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by logic_probe on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:35AM (#33904580)
An even better idea: Right now, the biggest address is 255.255.255.255. Why not just make it go up to 999.999.999.999? Problem solved!
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by keiyakins on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:28PM (#33924750)
Because on the wire it's encoded as four bytes. If you can make eight binary digits count up to 999, you can do a lot more than just make IPv4 last longer.
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