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[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 75 points 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.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

So add two more octets:

Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

IPv6 is not made with internal networks in mind lol

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Hurricanes cannot cross the equator. The equator is an imaginary line, and hence has zero mass. We can end every hurricane using zero point zero energy (0.0).

[-] alienzx@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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