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0 pointsDalewyn3y ago0 comments

"Yes you would know exactly, because every hex-colon monstrosity has a predictable hex-colon monstrosity derived from its hex-colon monstrosity."

If the problem wasn't obvious, the problem is that IPv6 addresses (and also MAC addresses) are not human readable. IPv4 addresses, on the other hand, are.

IPv6 adoption might be farther along if the addresses were human readable instead of eye-rolling machinations of a small subset of people who speak strictly in hexes.

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xnyanta3y ago

Adding A-F to the 0-9 existing digits in ip addresses makes them non-human readable? Give me a break. We've had something human-readable since the dawn of the internet: it's called DNS and works with both IP families.

DalewynOP3y ago

Tell me Google DNS's IPv6 addresses without looking them up. I won't wait.

Sometimes we need to deal with raw IP addresses instead of abstraction layers, and IPv6 fails hilariously because it clearly goes beyond the realm of direct human consumption.

You saying a non-human readable thing is human readable if it's passed through an abstraction layer to make something human readable only reinforces the argument IPv6 is not human readable.

bert643y ago

The way you see legacy IP addresses is also an abstraction layer, their actual form is as a 32bit integer.

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