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by logic_probe 1286 days ago
An even better idea: Right now, the biggest address is 255.255.255.255. Why not just make it go up to 999.999.999.999? Problem solved!
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keiyakins 1284 days ago
Because on the wire it's encoded as four bytes. If you can make eight binary digits count up to 999, you can do a lot more than just make IPv4 last longer.
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