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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

stupid question, wouldn't it be easier to just have sub addresses?

like my fictional ip address is 123.123.123

and I can set my router to give up to 1000 sub addresses, so one computer can host a Minecraft server at 123.123.123.001 I have another for my some projects, the projects ones each have sub addresses like 123.123.123.002.001 and 123.123 123.002.002...

a company could have countless layers and any amount of addresss they want.

and we're never going to run out of addresses.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago

    Well the IPv4 spec only allows 4 octets, so having 5 or more is impossible. We could fix it by changing the protocol, but at that point it's more worth it to just migrate to IPv6.

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