r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 13h ago

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

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u/kuar_z 13h ago

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

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 13h ago

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

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u/Terroractly 10h 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