alt Hacker News2026. Literally no reason to be using this outdated limited addressing.
New regex: IP(any collection of numbers and dots).
Now we have infinite IP address possibilities and no one controls the space.
Done.
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inigyou • today at 10:46 AM
What does a packet header look like?
Do you think routers perform their work using the human-readable addresses?
If so, that is incorrect. They use the binary values. The actual difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is that IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, not 32. So you can devise whatever human-readable abstraction you like, it won't change how networking actually operates.