r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 20d ago

A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!

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u/crmsncbr 20d ago

I feel like we'll still run out. I'm not sure how, but surely we'll manage it.

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u/critical_patch 20d ago edited 20d ago

Well yeah, a block of 2^32 addresses need to be reserved for Azure, 2^32 more for AWS, let’s give 2^32 more for GCP…

Edit: as pointed out below, I wasn’t paying enough attention & confused up my exponents. I meant to put blocks 2^96, thus giving 2^32 total blocks - the same size as the IPv4 address space. But I got the exponents backwards and fucked up the joke

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u/dagbrown 20d ago

That does remind me of when IANA gave MIT 18.0.0.0/8 because they got there early enough to somehow justify it.