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Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work? (europe.pub)
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But you're limited to a-f. I wonder if anyone's figured out how many addresses are actually possible with that system.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I think that's just 6^32, no? (Amount of options^string length). Which is 7958661109E24.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, calculation of the amount of possible strings containing only a-f is trivial. But the idea is for addresses to be memorable. So I'm wondering how many strings which are valid IPv6 addresses are possible if you are limited to actual English (or, pick a language) 4-letter words containing only a-f. As someone mentioned, this could be expanded with 1337-speak.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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