• Dumhuvud@programming.devEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    /64

    That’s not an address, that’s a whole fucking subnet consisting of 2^64 different addresses. ☝️🤓

  • ikoz@programming.dev
    25·
    2 months ago

    There was a cool project that converted hexadecimal numbers (or IPs) to pronouceable words. I think it was also more dense, and of course faster to say / easier to remember.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      10·
      2 months ago

      Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

          • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, calculation of the amount of possible strings containing only a-f is trivial. But the idea is for addresses to be memorable. So I’m wondering how many strings which are valid IPv6 addresses are possible if you are limited to actual English (or, pick a language) 4-letter words containing only a-f. As someone mentioned, this could be expanded with 1337-speak.

            • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              2 months ago

              Ahh right, that would be a bit more difficult to calculate.

              I guess you could make a script which just bruteforces all combinations of a-f against an English dictionary. I might try to do that tonight.

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      That’s cool, but I’m sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        maybe they could be sorted alphabetically to give you an idea, but yeah, it’d be harder to know for sure without a mixed format like

        worda:wordb::f1

  • aliser@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    I don’t get how regular network works, ipv6 is like 10 times more confusing with all its prefixes and subnets

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
      2·
      2 months ago

      I mean they dropped the parts of ip4 that are not used. They only multiplied the number of bits by 4, otherwise it’s the exact same ideas. The confusing part might be that a device gets multiple addresses off the bat. Using decimal for 128 bits would have made the address even worse.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 months ago

    Ain’t nobody never asked for any of this, but it invaded my home computer too!!! IPv6 rapist immigrants are taking over this country.

  • 🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol
    1·
    2 months ago
    • 3fff:a1:1ab:bc67::63c6:4fa4:40a:9aab/64
    • 2001:db8:a1ab:34ac:67ab:4af3:49a:5bb3/64
    • 3fff:d7a:cafe:77:9952:dc4d:da41:e1d7/64

    I was bored. And need to train ipv6 typing skills.