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		nashashmi 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over th... IPv4 should have been converted directly to IPv6. Every IPv4 address should have been given an equivalent IPv6 address. 192.168.1.1 becomes 2001:00C0:00A8:0000:0000:0000:0001:0001 or 2001:00C0:00A8::0001:0001.

sgjohnson 10 days ago | [–]

that exists - ::ffff:0:0/96 space. It even supports dots.

::ffff:192.168.1.1 == 192.168.1.1 (as far as the linux kernel is concerned, in most contexts)

Sesse__ 10 days ago | | [–]

You mean, like 6to4? We did that.

apearson 10 days ago | [–]

So NAT64?

https://www.nat64.net

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