• Centillionaire@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      That would allow for like, 2 trillion devices? Feels like a bandaid, my dude. Next you’re gonna suggest a giant ice cube in the ocean once a year to stop global warming.

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        So add two more octets:

        Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

          • dan@upvote.au
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            You can use a ULA if you want to. That’s essentially the IPv6 equivalent of a private IP.

            Why though? Having the same IP for both internal and external solves a bunch of issues. For example, you don’t need to use split horizon DNS any more (which is where a host name has a different IP on your internal network vs on the internet). You just need to ensure your firewalls are set up properly, which you should do anyways.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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              My dude, you used the 10.xx private IP as an example. Why wouldn’t they assume you were referring to internal networks?

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                I thought it was pretty clear with me adding 13.37 that I was making a joke, the earlier post spoke about how just adding one octet would still be too few addresses, so I joked about adding one more octet.

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                  I’m only pointing out why the other poster would make the assumption you were referring to an internal network. Do with it what you will.

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        You could follow this logic and add 2 alphanumeric digits before 4 numeric octets. E.g. xf.192.168.1.1

        This would at least keep it looking like an IP and not a Mac address. Another advantage would be graceful ipv4 handling with a reserved range starting with “ip” like ip.10.10.10.1

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Oh yeah, great, let’s change the fundamental protocol on which all the networks in the world are based. Now two third of the devices in the world crashed because you tried to ping 192.168.0.0.1