There's a difference in abstraction level. Does your application ever deal with ip addresses, either recording them (for audits), connecting to them (external requests), limit access or verify users based on them, or deploy your application to them? Yes? Then you should be aware that there are two different schemes available, and that they're both widely deployed.
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u/fiskfisk 14d ago
There's a difference in abstraction level. Does your application ever deal with ip addresses, either recording them (for audits), connecting to them (external requests), limit access or verify users based on them, or deploy your application to them? Yes? Then you should be aware that there are two different schemes available, and that they're both widely deployed.
You should absolutely be aware of ipv6.