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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by immibis on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:14PM (#41163253)
They are most definitely designed to be globally unique, and we fucked it up.
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by vel0city on Monday August 05, 2024 @01:26PM (#41163378)
If that was supposed to be the case it's been fucked up since they first gave 19.0.0.0/8 to a car company in 1988, or when IPv4 was originally designed with such a small address range.
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