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pocksuppetyesterday at 8:03 PM1 replyview on HN

There are more households than IP addresses. They can't all have one each. So you need longer addresses, and then you're already reinventing IPv6.


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mburnsyesterday at 9:06 PM

There are roughly twice as many IPv4 addresses as households globally.

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