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earthpyy • today at 4:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Maybe because IPv6 digits are hexadecimal? and we also have DNS service for that.


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throw0101c • today at 7:28 PM

> Maybe because IPv6 digits are hexadecimal?

Mostly for us humans of course.

IPv4 addresses are generally in base-10, but binary and octal can also technically be used (on the CLI).

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