• Centillionaire@kbin.social
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    10 months 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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      10 months ago

      So add two more octets:

      Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

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          10 months ago

          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.

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          10 months ago

          Never claimed it was, please quote me where I said as much

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      10 months ago

      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