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		logic_probe on Dec 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable An even better idea: Right now, the biggest address is 255.255.255.255. Why not just make it go up to 999.999.999.999? Problem solved!

keiyakins on Dec 9, 2022 [–]

Because on the wire it's encoded as four bytes. If you can make eight binary digits count up to 999, you can do a lot more than just make IPv4 last longer.

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