Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by autokad on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:23PM (#37918402)

NAT means we can work with IPv4 already and makes IPv6 moot. you just supported my argument.

Honestly, all they had to do was add alpha characters. Just doing so would have gave us more IP addresses than we ever needed while keeping it human readable.

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by chungy on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:41PM (#37918667)

IPv6 standard notation already uses alpha characters. Some notations of IPv4 use them too.

"Just adding characters" isn't a solution on its own. IPv4 is 32-bit addresses, IPv6 is 128-bit addresses. That's all there is to that.

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by Minor49er on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:31PM (#37918512)

I change my default gateway from 192.168.0.1 to C0.A8.00.01. Is the problem fixed yet?

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by c22 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:26PM (#37918445)

So use onion routing.

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by autokad on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:31PM (#37918509)

you are missing the forest from the trees. the point is, simpler solutions were available.

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by c22 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:34PM (#37918560)

I'd argue it's you who are focused on trees. Use DNS if you prefer.

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by icehawk on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:33PM (#37919495)

Source and destination IP addresses are 32 bit fields in an IP packet.

Where do you propose they put these alpha characters?

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