alt Hacker NewsWhat I really don't understand is why IPv6 was made so human unfriendly, why not just use 6 three digit blocks? Surely we are not better of now with two parallel IP versions.
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giancarlostoro • yesterday at 3:07 PM
Honestly, maybe the real answer is someone needs to make IPv8 or whatever as a better alternative that's easier to adopt? sigh.
There's no way to expand the address space without breaking compatibility. A router is expecting IPv4 addresses, not 10.15.100.252.xxx.yyy addresses. All routers, firewalls, operating systems, programs, smartphones, etc would have to be replaced to support "IPv4 with 56-bit addresses."
Hexadecimal is shorter than the equivalent decimal representation. An 128-bit address would be 10.15.100.252.111.222.333.444.555.666.777.888.999.000.111.222. Use DNS!