• Centillionaire@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      77
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 年前

      That would allow for like, 2 trillion devices? Feels like a bandaid, my dude. Next you’re gonna suggest a giant ice cube in the ocean once a year to stop global warming.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        3 年前

        So add two more octets:

        Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

          • dan@upvote.au
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 年前

            You can use a ULA if you want to. That’s essentially the IPv6 equivalent of a private IP.

            Why though? Having the same IP for both internal and external solves a bunch of issues. For example, you don’t need to use split horizon DNS any more (which is where a host name has a different IP on your internal network vs on the internet). You just need to ensure your firewalls are set up properly, which you should do anyways.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              18
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              3 年前

              My dude, you used the 10.xx private IP as an example. Why wouldn’t they assume you were referring to internal networks?

              • stoy@lemmy.zip
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                3 年前

                I thought it was pretty clear with me adding 13.37 that I was making a joke, the earlier post spoke about how just adding one octet would still be too few addresses, so I joked about adding one more octet.

                • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  ·
                  3 年前

                  I’m only pointing out why the other poster would make the assumption you were referring to an internal network. Do with it what you will.

      • alienzx@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        3 年前

        You could follow this logic and add 2 alphanumeric digits before 4 numeric octets. E.g. xf.192.168.1.1

        This would at least keep it looking like an IP and not a Mac address. Another advantage would be graceful ipv4 handling with a reserved range starting with “ip” like ip.10.10.10.1

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      3 年前

      Oh yeah, great, let’s change the fundamental protocol on which all the networks in the world are based. Now two third of the devices in the world crashed because you tried to ping 192.168.0.0.1