Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
by kaoD on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:04PM
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How so?
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Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
by resumenext on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:12PM
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It’s intended to be human readable, but it’s not and its slow adoption is proof of that. A random 10 digit string would arguably be better.
> It’s intended to be human readable…
What? No.
Facebook did some brute forcing to slip `facebook` into their Onion URLs, but no one's intended to be typing these things out.
You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses
Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
by resumenext on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:30AM
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I was thinking of ipv5.
Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
by umanwizard on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:16PM
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> It’s intended to be human readable
Says who?
> slow adoption is proof of that
No it's not. There are many plausible reasons for the slow pace of IPv6 adoption. Poor human-readability of addresses is among the least plausible.