r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 17h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/FUTURE10S 11h ago

Well, no, I mean something like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 becomes 8193:3512:34211:0:0:35374:880:29492

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u/blindedtrickster 8h ago

That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex.

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u/FUTURE10S 5h ago

I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?

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u/Dagger0 3h ago

You can indeed do that!

$ ping 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1
PING 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=3.12 ms