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inigyouyesterday at 2:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yet another thing ipv6 solves. Yeah you can do the officially supported fdXX:XXXX:XXXX:... but you can also just pick something like 1::1 and it's unlikely to conflict with the current global range.

If you're gonna do that, though, it's better if you use fd00:... or one of the other assigned ranges so it's still in the standard range. OSes use this as a heuristic for source address selection.


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Matuzyyesterday at 2:24 PM

> Yet another thing ipv6 solves. ... it's unlikely to conflict with the current global range

I'm not familiar with IPv6's details, could you elaborate on this? To me, this reads like you're saying that IPv6 solves the problem by having low adoption rates rather than an actual function of the protocol.

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kowbellyesterday at 2:21 PM

"all that 192 stuff was silly and too complicated... but this fd00: stuff is easy peasy!"

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