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sgjohnson
No. Implement IPv6.

0.0.0.0/8 wouldn’t even be enough to clear the current RIPE & ARIN waiting lists.

tuatoru
IPV4.2: IPV4 with six octets. We'd have it well before now if the second system effect and the architecture astronauts had been quelled.
photonbucket
v6 is already at 45% of google search traffic, it seems pretty inevitable at this point
sgjohnson
About ~75% of my traffic by TBs at home is IPv6. Of course a lot of it is Netflix & Youtube etc., but still.

Not sure how it’s looking like per host.

sgjohnson
No. It still wouldn’t be backwards compatible and would have the same exact implementation problems as IPv6 would.

Besides a 48 bit address length makes very little sense.

photonbeam
Can HN go IPv6-only and start a trend
v3ss0n
I am not going to type or remember gazillions of characters to ping my servers
sgjohnson
If only someone invented something that could translate something akin to yourname.com to the said gazillions of characters…
BenjiWiebe
Even on my v4 lan the first thing I do when adding another host is give it a nice name in my dhcp server. Then I can ping/ssh/webadmin straight to nicename.lan.
v3ss0n
Then why we have ip addresses in the first place . Let's just have In place of IP address. And then everything become centralized
joombaga
> 0.0.0.0/32 is still prohibited, of course.

Good. I won't have to change my hosts file.