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orangeboats • today at 1:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Eg 192.168.0.1 becomes 0.0.0.0.192.168.0.1

How is this different from ::192.168.0.1? :)


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wpm • today at 1:15 PM

I can read one at a glance and the other makes me fill in the blanks myself after having to count how many invisible blanks I need to fill in.

Of all the sins of IPv6, its tied between using ':' as the separator, and the god awful '::' "just skip writing the address because we made them too fucking big lol"

Wouldn't have been a problem if they hadn't given every square millimeter of the planet 100 billion addresses.

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