Post #2098142
2023-09-17 22:17 UTC
@sindarina 1.2.3.4 is cute and memorable though. They really should've reserved it, it would've been sensible.
There's a reason the test phone numbers use all-5 sequences like (555) 555 XXXX. (Admittedly that really wasn't intentional and it just happened due to a number of reasons, but that's a detail.)
I'm disappointed that wasn't a comment brought up when those RFCs were drafted.
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@pmevzek@framapiaf.org 2024-12-31 19:49
@lispi314 @sindarina Why is `1.2.3.4` "cute"? And not `0.1.2.3` ? Or `10.20.30.40`? How is it more memorable than all other bad cases like `1.1.1.1`? More importantly: why do you even care to memorize it? No one should bother with memorizing IP addresses, specially those of current Internet aka IPv6 ones, but even for legacy IPv4 ones. There was this thing invented long ago to help humans use just names they are comfortable with, called the DNS...