On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Newton <m...@leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote: > > it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the > rest > > of the internet. it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess > > we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons > > learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet). > > Would be really interesting to know how you would propose > squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we > could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has > available to save having to move to this new incompatible format. I solved that problem a few years ago (well, kinda -- only for backend logging, not for routing): http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/net/InetAddresses.html#getCoercedIPv4Address(java.net.InetAddress) Damian
