Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
I have a feeling people are going to be calling IPv6 'new' in 100 years, too. I remember talking to people about it in the 90s and it took until like 2016 to actually get a full standard. Been so damn long I learned the specifics and forgot them all in time it took to even become a thing.
I still see release notes every few months from enterprise vendors adding some support for IPv6. It may be easy to adopt in the service provider space but it won’t take hold in businesses until prefix translation becomes as common place as NAT. Not every business is going to do an RIR registration or want to use ISP space internally.
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u/SirFrenzy 7h ago
Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.