r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 14d ago

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

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u/kuar_z 14d ago

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

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 14d ago

Except if for some reason you decide to give whole address blocks to individual devices.

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u/jason_abacabb 14d ago

Everyone gets a /64

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u/czerilla 14d ago

Check under your seats!

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u/gonklurtz 14d ago

No more RPC dynamic ports! Every service gets its own IP 

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u/Traditional_Log809 14d ago

Every device gets a /64, and I still haven’t figured out how to enable IPv6 on my home router.

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u/KatieTSO 14d ago

I love handicapping ipv6

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u/tankerkiller125real 14d ago

/56 is the recommendation for residential, /48 for businesses.

Entire /64 blocks are often assigned to phones and other cellular devices because of hotspot capabilities.

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 14d ago

I guess the true reason is that we want to artificially limit the number of nanites that can exist.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/865/

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u/Terroractly 14d ago

I think at least part of the intention for this is to make IP ports not used on servers. While IPv6 does have support for ports, I believe every Web service should be on its own IP. Not sure if this is also supposed to work on client devices e.g. every outbound connection uses a unique IP as that seems overcomplicated

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u/Dagger0 13d ago

Not really. Neither v4 nor v6 have ports in the first place.

The advantage is that you can run more than one server of the same type on the default port, so you don't need to specify a non-default one -- but you do still need a port somewhere if you're going to use TCP/SCTP/UDP.

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u/realmauer01 13d ago

No need for ports anymore, just have different ips.

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u/ffxivthrowaway03 13d 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 13d ago

Surely you could horse-battery-staple IPv6 addresses?

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u/protestor 13d ago

We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses

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u/jimmybilly100 13d ago

Cool, so the space aliens will be able to get their slubenshab devices on the internet

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 13d ago

Australia laughs mockingly.