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by ben0x539 2008 days ago
I write 127.1 all the time when I'm too lazy to type 127.0.0.1. Then I'm sad when it doesn't work because the nearest ip address parser wasn't written in the previous millennium.

Oh, yeah, and 1.1 is the only DNS server address I memorized.

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I use mtr 1.1 all the time. (Like, literally all the time, I normally have it running in the background so I can see whether it’s my computer’s wi-fi adapter, the wi-fi router or the local ISP that’s playing up this time.)

I remember it was a few days after they came out with 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 that it dawned on my that I could drop the zeroes. I’d been wondering why they hadn’t chosen 1.2.3.4, but once I realised 1.0.0.1 was just 1.1, it became fairly obvious why they had chosen it.

(P.S. mtr’s stripchart with latency information is super great for this sort of thing; I have MTR_OPTIONS=--displaymode=2 set in my environment.)

8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 1.1.1.1

I’m sad that there probably won’t be any memorizable addresses in ipv6.