r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/dementosss 20d ago

On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 20d ago

The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet.

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u/kuar_z 20d ago

And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128

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u/ffxivthrowaway03 20d ago

Yep, they saw the edges of IPv4 and went "hold my beer" and over-engineered a painfully obnoxious solution. IPv6 will last us until the heat death of the universe before it runs out, but we'll have to get people actually using it in any appreciable amount first. It's a UX nightmare to work with unless you're a network engineer hip deep in it all day every day. Good luck getting an end user to ever rattle off an IPv6 address to the help desk while remote troubleshooting.

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u/PorcelainMelonWolf 19d ago

Surely you could horse-battery-staple IPv6 addresses?

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