1-888-STOP-HEX
Are we hiring a white hat hacker or a white hat witch?
There was a cool project that converted hexadecimal numbers (or IPs) to pronouceable words. I think it was also more dense, and of course faster to say / easier to remember.
Some kind of Name System?
That’s cool, but I’m sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc
Reminds me of three word location.
there’s no place like Nyamyochu Sha
/64That’s not an address, that’s a whole fucking subnet consisting of 2^64 different addresses. ☝️🤓
I’ll see you in court.
It is a single address with an associated subnet mask, indicating what subnet the address is in.
The subnet would be 3fff:a1:1ab:bc67::/64, for the top one.
Maybe but I always have to enter /24 after setting a VM’s manual IP for it to be valid
That would depend on the network environment. If your VM is on a /28 subnet and you set /24 it won’t be valid
Does IPv6 scare you so much that you start craving the monstrosity known as NAT44?
Idk man, NAT makes a lot of sense once you get used to it. And it’s pretty cozy with its firewall features. And somewhat human readable ipv4 addresses are nice.
ISPs putting you behind NAT is not cozy.
They charge extra for a feature called “static IP”. But the IP address not being static is not the issue, for me at least. You could host stuff with a dynamic IP back in 2000s/2010s. But no, now you get to share the same IPv4 address with a bunch of other households, unless you pay extra.
Ha, yeah that sucks and I’d absolutely hate it if I were behind a CGNAT. But I believe most ISPs don’t do that. None of mine ever have. Just like how most ISPs provide you with an ipv6 address range, but not all. Fact is that crappy ISPs can screw up your network no matter what ip spec you’re using.
And I’ve never heard of a business network being behind an ISP controlled CGNAT. A NAT you control can be nice.
Idk man, NAT makes a lot of sense once you get used to it.
That’s a lie, NAT is bullshit, sometimes necessary, but it will never “make sense”.
I like that none of my local devices are externally addressable unless an outgoing connection has been established. You can (and should) achieve the same thing with ipv6, but then it’s essentially just maintaining a NAT table without the translation piece. I think that makes sense in both protocols.
I like that none of my local devices are externally addressable unless an outgoing connection has been established.
This can also be achieved using (other) firewall rules.
but then it’s essentially just maintaining a NAT table without the translation piece.
So… a firewall?
NAT isn’t a security feature and shouldn’t be relied on for managing access to hosts.
It also breaks the assumption of IP that connections between hosts are end-to-end, which requires sophisticated solutions so that everything works (more or less).
I too employ NAT to make services accessible over IPv4. But only because it doesn’t work otherwise. Not because it “makes sense”. I don’t use it at all for IPv6.
Yes, who do you think deployed it.
The future is now, old man
