alt Hacker NewsAll global IPv6 addresses start with 2. This is by design. Pedantically, 3 is also reserved for global. Some other prefixes are also reserved, like fd for the ULA (local) range.
The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long they are easy to manage.
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ConceptJunkie • yesterday at 4:14 PM
The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long that we don't run out of them in 20 years or so.
There fixed that for you.
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>The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long they are easy to manage.
lol, there is no doubt that had a massive opposite effect. To the point of nearly killing it in terms of willingness to adopt.