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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So add two more octets:

Moat companies will still just use something like 10.0.13.37.0.1

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IPv6 is not made with internal networks in mind lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can use a ULA if you want to. That's essentially the IPv6 equivalent of a private IP.

Why though? Having the same IP for both internal and external solves a bunch of issues. For example, you don't need to use split horizon DNS any more (which is where a host name has a different IP on your internal network vs on the internet). You just need to ensure your firewalls are set up properly, which you should do anyways.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never claimed it was, please quote me where I said as much

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dude, you used the 10.xx private IP as an example. Why wouldn’t they assume you were referring to internal networks?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was pretty clear with me adding 13.37 that I was making a joke, the earlier post spoke about how just adding one octet would still be too few addresses, so I joked about adding one more octet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’m only pointing out why the other poster would make the assumption you were referring to an internal network. Do with it what you will.