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)
Squeezing 32 bits into 128 bits is easy. Let me know how you do with squeezing 128 bits into 32 bits...
Damian
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