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We don't talk about IPv5 (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do like how I can easily remember IPv4 addresses while I struggle to remember a single IPv6 address

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Come on, it's e easy to remember one IPv6 address: ::1

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Its really not possible to remember an IPv6. I mean it is but its really an abandonment on human level and a solution that leverage dhcp which was common anyway. Its about as easy as a hardware address.

[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 2 days ago

Its really not possible to remember an IPv6.

skill issue. Your ISP isn't giving you a /128, you don't have to remember a whole ass SLAAC address. My desktop has like 4 IPv6 addresses most of the time, but I only have to remember the one I assigned it and my network prefix. This is one of the advantages of IPv6; you can have an easy to remember, and SLAAC, and privacy-extension addresses all at once.

I can't prove it, but I'm typing this from my head- 2a05:f6c7:8321::10
That's about as human readable as IPv4.